Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other offer sit among all 174,060 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 174,060, or 0.11% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 24,540 jobs; the top three states sum to 29.0% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Alaska posts a location quotient of 2.42, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $81,290, which is 2.2 times the $37,290 at the 10th, a difference of $44,000 annually. Because the mean wage ($56,370) sits above the median ($48,790), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Wyoming posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $65,560, and California the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other stands number 183 by employment and number 550 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 50% less than its group median, and it supplies 1.8% of the group's 9,592,720 jobs. In 28 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $48,790, 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 9,920 jobs, 5.7% 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, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $40,720 a year, against $91,040 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, 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 Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other paycheck, gross, is $1,877 every two weeks on an annual $48,790, which is $4,066 a month and $938 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($40,740) to the 75th ($62,280) is worth $21,540 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $53,669 would sit between the median ($48,790) and the 75th percentile ($62,280), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $40,740, is $8,050 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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