Veterinary jobs in Illinois

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Veterinary jobs in Illinois come from two kinds of payroll: private clinics, which employ most of the field, and public institutions such as the University of Illinois, which runs the state's veterinary college in Urbana. Nationally, BLS put the May 2025 median for veterinary technicians at $52,200 in colleges and universities, against $47,170 in veterinary services.

Your Illinois association is Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association, listed with its counterparts across the country in the association directory.

About Veterinary jobs in Illinois

The trade is a smaller pool of teaching and research jobs for somewhat higher pay, against the far larger clinic market. In Illinois, that clinic market centers on the Chicago area, where BLS counted 3,250 technicians and put the veterinarian median at $148,730. The state certifies its technicians, whose median was $46,440. As of today that means 33 live veterinary jobs in Illinois. The largest share comes from Heartland Veterinary Partners LLC, Sploot Veterinary Care, and Avenue Animal Hospital, and Chicago, Hoffman Estates, and Geneva have the most of them.