Vet assistant pay in Maine

Vet assistants in Maine: $19 to $25 an hour in job ads

From 16 job ads at 9 employers, updated Nov 9, 2026

$22 an hour, median in job ads

10th to 90th percentile, 16 ads at 9 employersBLS median $21.88 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 Maine sits

Each ball is one state's median vet assistant pay in job ads. Maine pays more than 39 of the 42 states with enough ads.

Maine $22

Pay by metro

Portland-South Portland, ME$19 to $23 an hour median $21, 8 ads

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

What the jobs offer

CE allowance6% (2 of 35 ads)

Mentorship6% (2 of 35 ads)

Counted only where the ad's own words say it, out of all 35 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 Maine

Veterinary Assistant at Piscataqua Animal Hospital, Kittery$16 to $21 an hour
Veterinary Assistant at Veterinary Practice Partners, Bangor$20 to $24 an hour
Animal Care Supervisor at Petco, Topsham$18.75 to $29.25 an hour

Questions

How much do vet assistants make in Maine?

Job ads in Maine offer vet assistants $19 to $25 an hour, median $22, from 16 ads at 9 employers (Nov 9, 2026). The BLS median for vet assistants in Maine was $21.88 an hour in May 2025.

How does Maine compare with the US?

The median vet assistant job ad in Maine offers $22 an hour (16 ads), $2 more than the US median of $20 (3,115 ads), as of Nov 9, 2026.

What benefits do vet assistant jobs in Maine offer?

Of 35 vet assistant ads in Maine, 2 mention a CE allowance, 2 mention mentorship, as of Nov 9, 2026. Only what the ad itself says is counted.

Sources

Job ads, Nov 9, 2026. 16 open vet assistant ads in Maine that state hourly pay, at 9 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 Maine, $21.88 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 35 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.