Vet assistant pay in Louisiana

Vet assistants in Louisiana: $13 to $17 an hour in job ads

From 18 job ads at 5 employers, updated Nov 9, 2026

$15 an hour, median in job ads

10th to 90th percentile, 18 ads at 5 employersBLS median $14.65 an hour, May 2025 (a separate source)

Updated Nov 9, 2026. Each employer counts once, however many ads it posts. Hourly ads only, never converted.

Where Louisiana sits

Each ball is one state's median vet assistant pay in job ads. Louisiana pays more than 1 of the 42 states with enough ads.

Louisiana $15

Pay by metro

New Orleans-Metairie, LA$15 to $17 an hour median $16, 8 ads

Only metros with 5 or more ads are shown. BLS medians are May 2025.

What the jobs offer

CE allowance8% (6 of 78 ads)

Mentorship5% (4 of 78 ads)

New grads welcome4% (3 of 78 ads)

Counted only where the ad's own words say it, out of all 78 open vet assistant ads on Nov 9, 2026, including ads that state no pay. The pay figures above use only ads that state hourly or yearly pay. Each ball is 10%.

Hiring now in Louisiana

Veterinary Assistant at Banfield Pet Hospital - Baton Rouge South, Baton Rouge$15 to $18.94 an hour
Veterinary Assistant at Pet Care Center, Metairie$14 to $16 an hour
Veterinary Assistant - 001806 at Banfield Pet Hospital - Bossier City, Bossier City$15 to $18.39 an hour

Questions

How much do vet assistants make in Louisiana?

Job ads in Louisiana offer vet assistants $13 to $17 an hour, median $15, from 18 ads at 5 employers (Nov 9, 2026). The BLS median for vet assistants in Louisiana was $14.65 an hour in May 2025.

How does Louisiana compare with the US?

The median vet assistant job ad in Louisiana offers $15 an hour (18 ads), $5 less than the US median of $20 (3,115 ads), as of Nov 9, 2026.

What benefits do vet assistant jobs in Louisiana offer?

Of 78 vet assistant ads in Louisiana, 6 mention a CE allowance, 4 mention mentorship, 3 mention welcoming new grads, as of Nov 9, 2026. Only what the ad itself says is counted.

Sources

Job ads, Nov 9, 2026. 18 open vet assistant ads in Louisiana that state hourly pay, at 5 employers. An ad that states pay with no hour or year is left out. Read from employers' own job feeds and careers pages.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025. Median pay for vet assistants in Louisiana, $14.65 an hour, from a survey of employers. A separate source from the job ads, shown beside them and never mixed in.
Benefits, Nov 9, 2026. Counted across all 78 open ads, whether or not they state pay.

Each job-ad figure is kept with the ad's own sentence. See also how often vets leave their practice.