Associate Veterinarian
Compensation
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- Employment & setting
- Full-Time
- Call expectations
- Includes call
- Weekends
- Includes weekends
Job Description
Description
Eastern Shore Animal Hospital is seeking a full-time or part-time urgent care veterinarian to join our dedicated staff in North Carolina’s beautiful Outer Banks.
In June 2023, we expanded our services to include urgent care, with this service operating Saturday and Sunday from 8 am to 8 pm. These are single-doctor shifts, seeing a variety of medical and surgical cases. We are not providing overnight care at this time, so more critical patients are referred to 24-hour facilities. We are searching for a veterinarian interested in working some of these weekend hours, as well as some weekday primary care shifts, depending on your interest in part-time or full-time. Relief veterinarians are also encouraged to contact us!
Why Eastern Shore Animal Hospital
Eastern Shore Animal Hospital has been a cornerstone of veterinary excellence in our community for over three decades, adopting a family-oriented approach to pet care. Eastern Shore is a 3-doctor practice, fully equipped with in-house labs and digital radiographs. We have a dedicated dental suite, with digital dental radiographs. We love our bright and airy building, with lots of natural light.
Eastern Shore Animal Hospital is in Grandy, NC, on a peninsula situated between the Currituck Sound and the North River. Minutes from the Outer Banks and its beaches, the town is great for growing families who want an easy commute to the surrounding communities of Kitty Hawk, Nags Head, Elizabeth City, and the Tidewater Region of Virginia.
Why Vets Pets
A privately owned, North Carolina based company, Vets Pets is excited to partner with motivated and talented veterinarians and team members to recognize their dreams and goals and build or create a great business around them. We started with two practices in 2007 and have grown to over thirty locations in North Carolina. The company's vision is to provide quality veterinary care to families with an employee-centered management approach.
Perks and benefits include
- Compensation is a no negative accrual base salary with bonus production
- A choice between two medical plans with prescription drug benefits
- Dental and vision coverage available
- 401(k) Savings Plan with employer match, including immediate vesting
- CE stipend and days off
- All professional dues and NC licensure are covered
- AVMA Professional Liability Insurance
- Life insurance for yourself, spouse and eligible dependents available
- Paid time off / holidays
- Flexible schedules
- Health Savings Account available
- Short term disability
- Uniform allowance
For more information and consideration, please contact
Lindsay Carrier
lindsaycarrier@thevetspets.com
Key Responsibilities
Provide urgent care services during weekend shifts and primary care during weekdays. Manage a variety of medical and surgical cases for pets in a family-oriented practice.
Requirements
Must be a licensed veterinarian capable of handling single-doctor shifts. Interest in working weekend urgent care hours is specifically requested.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Urgent Care Career Context
In North Carolina, the Veterinarian weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$125k (16 salary observations; 96 listings), vs ~$146k nationally (446 salary observations; 3,065 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-03-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 50 active Veterinarian listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 80% have no call, 54% require no weekends.
Veterinarian pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.5% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for North Carolina is 94.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 59.2% of North Carolina clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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Living in Grandy
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $394k
- Median resident rent
- $1,122/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 24 min
- State income tax
- Up to 4.8%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.