Vet Techs.. How much do you earn?

How much you earn varies a lot based on where you live. The starting salary salary where I work is about $6.50/hour. Not much. As one of the senior techs (and one of the highest paid techs), I still only make about $8.25/hour. No one there works as a tech because of the money. We do it because we love it. It is enough to live on if you have minimal bills, cheap apartment, don't eat out much, etc., but it certainly isn't going to give you a lot of spending money. Most of our techs either live with their parents or have a spouse paying most of the bills with their jobs.