Vet assistant pay in Mississippi

Vet assistants in Mississippi: $13 to $16 an hour in job ads

From 9 job ads at 3 employers, updated Nov 9, 2026

$16 an hour, median in job ads

10th to 90th percentile, 9 ads at 3 employersBLS median $14.60 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 Mississippi sits

Each ball is one state's median vet assistant pay in job ads. Mississippi pays more than 2 of the 42 states with enough ads.

Mississippi $16

Pay by metro

Memphis, TN-MS-AR$17 to $18 an hour median $18, 7 ads

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

What the jobs offer

CE allowance6% (2 of 32 ads)

New grads welcome3% (1 of 32 ads)

Counted only where the ad's own words say it, out of all 32 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 Mississippi

Seasonal Kennel Assistant at Animal Clinic of Oxford, Oxford$13 to $18 an hour
Kennel Technician at Animal Medical Center, Hattiesburg$11 to $13 an hour
Kennel Assistant at Animal Clinic of Oxford, Oxford$13 to $18 an hour

Questions

How much do vet assistants make in Mississippi?

Job ads in Mississippi offer vet assistants $13 to $16 an hour, median $16, from 9 ads at 3 employers (Nov 9, 2026). The BLS median for vet assistants in Mississippi was $14.60 an hour in May 2025.

How does Mississippi compare with the US?

The median vet assistant job ad in Mississippi offers $16 an hour (9 ads), $4 less than the US median of $20 (3,115 ads), as of Nov 9, 2026.

What benefits do vet assistant jobs in Mississippi offer?

Of 32 vet assistant ads in Mississippi, 2 mention a CE allowance, 1 mention welcoming new grads, as of Nov 9, 2026. Only what the ad itself says is counted.

Sources

Job ads, Nov 9, 2026. 9 open vet assistant ads in Mississippi that state hourly pay, at 3 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 Mississippi, $14.60 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 32 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.