Veterinarian
Compensation
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- Employment & setting
- Full-Time
- Call expectations
- Includes call
- Weekends
- Not specified
Job Description
Description
Holly Ridge Veterinary Hospital is seeking a full-time veterinarian to join our friendly, community-focused team near the coast of North Carolina.
Are you looking for a practice where collaboration, compassion, and growth are valued? Do you want to make a real difference in a thriving, pet-loving community? Have you dreamed of living near the beach with easy access to both coastal towns and the Wilmington area? Come visit us—you’ll want to stay!
Why Holly Ridge Veterinary Hospital
Since opening in 2015, Holly Ridge Veterinary Hospital has proudly served pets and families in Holly Ridge, Sneads Ferry, Surf City, and beyond. We are a full-service small animal hospital offering wellness care, surgery, dentistry, and diagnostics. Our team is dedicated to practicing high-quality medicine while building meaningful relationships with our clients.
Our hospital is fully equipped with ultrasound, digital radiography, in-house laboratory services, and a dedicated dental suite with dental radiographs.
Holly Ridge itself is a gem—nestled just minutes from Topsail Island’s beaches and a short drive to Wilmington or Jacksonville. It’s a wonderful place to enjoy coastal living, whether you’re looking for small-town charm or outdoor adventures like boating, fishing, and beach days.
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 a great business around them. We started with two practices in 2007 and have grown to over thirty locations across North Carolina. Our vision is to provide quality veterinary care to families with an employee-centered management approach.
Perks and benefits include
- Compensation is a generous base salary with production paid monthly?
- 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?
- Short term disability?
- Uniform allowance?
For more information and consideration, please contact
Lindsay Carrier
lindsaycarrier@thevetspets.com?
Key Responsibilities
Provide high-quality veterinary medicine, including wellness care, surgery, dentistry, and diagnostics for small animals. Build and maintain meaningful relationships with clients within the community.
Requirements
Seeking a motivated and talented veterinarian to join a full-service small animal hospital. Must be capable of utilizing hospital equipment such as ultrasound and digital radiography.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Healthcare Professional 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, 56% 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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Listing-based score
- Includes call
Living in Holly Ridge
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $327k
- Typical market rent
- $1,823/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 32 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 92.1
- State income tax
- Up to 4.8%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Jacksonville, NC metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.