Dietetic Technicians Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($28,280) to the 90th ($53,440). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 29,950, or 0.02% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 6,120 jobs; the top three states sum to 36.4% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Michigan posts a location quotient of 3.25, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $32,460 at the 25th percentile, $37,040 at the middle, $44,290 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $25,160, a ratio of 1.9 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 46 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Oregon at $52,800; the jobs leader is California:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Dietetic Technicians stands number 482 by employment and number 761 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, the group median wage is $98,340 across 71 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 62% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.3% of the group's 9,592,720 jobs. In 22 of the 44 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $37,040, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is the largest metro employer with 2,340 jobs, 7.8% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $31,440 a year, against $54,580 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $37,040 a year is $3,087 a month gross, $1,425 every two weeks, $712 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($32,460) to the 75th ($44,290) is worth $11,830 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $3,087 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $40,744 would sit between the median ($37,040) and the 75th percentile ($44,290), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $32,460, is $4,580 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Sibling occupations in Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations: Nuclear Medicine Technologists, Recreational Therapists, Audiologists, Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric, Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric, Physicians, Pathologists. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.