Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars 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 ($39,120) to the 90th ($112,130). 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

With 37,620 jobs nationally, Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars make up 0.02% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 3,270 of those jobs, the top three states hold 22.7%, and the deepest concentration sits in Idaho (location quotient 2.80, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $48,400 at the 25th percentile, $67,310 at the middle, $92,410 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $73,010, a ratio of 2.9 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

The state spread for Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars runs from the $95,340 median in California down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (3,270 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars stands number 439 by employment and number 306 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 32% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.4% of the group's 9,592,720 jobs. In 22 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $67,310, 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

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 2,420 jobs, 6.4% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $50,240 a year, against $102,660 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $67,310 works out to $5,609 a month before taxes, $2,589 per biweekly paycheck, and $1,294 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($48,400) to the 75th ($92,410) is worth $44,010 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $74,041 would sit between the median ($67,310) and the 75th percentile ($92,410), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $48,400, is $18,910 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

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: Radiologic Technologists and Technicians, Dental Hygienists, Medical Records Specialists, Speech-Language Pathologists, Emergency Medical Technicians, Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.