Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other 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 ($37,220) to the 90th ($127,340). 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

The occupation employed 36,970 people in May 2024, 0.02% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 4,110 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 28.9% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Louisiana, whose location quotient of 8.34 says this work is 8.34 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $127,340, which is 3.4 times the $37,220 at the 10th, a difference of $90,120 annually. Because the mean wage ($73,200) sits above the median ($64,030), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

District of Columbia posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $107,490, and California the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other stands number 443 by employment and number 344 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 35% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.4% of the group's 9,592,720 jobs. In 23 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $64,030, 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 Orleans-Metairie, LA is the largest metro employer with 1,820 jobs, 4.9% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 130 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Pittsburgh, PA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $50,660 a year, against $98,910 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $64,030 a year is $5,336 a month gross, $2,463 every two weeks, $1,231 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($45,250) to the 75th ($91,000) is worth $45,750 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 $5,336 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 $70,433 would sit between the median ($64,030) and the 75th percentile ($91,000), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $45,250, is $18,780 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

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