Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians
What the pay figures show
- For once the obvious answer is right. Utah pays this job best, at $113,510. It keeps that lead after tax. It keeps it after local prices too — $88,033 in comparable money. Most jobs are not this tidy.
- The nominal leader for cardiovascular technologists and technicians is also the real leader: Utah at $113,510, holding through tax and through price deflation to $88,033. Both adjustments leave the ordering at the top intact, which indicates a wage premium large enough to dominate the state's tax burden and price level rather than merely offset them.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$74,310
People doing it
62,960
Highest paid
$113,510
UT
Best off, really
$88,033
UT, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$39,000
Highest tenth
$121,350
Lowest, really
$35,839
MS
States with data
51
National average
$76,940
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
95%
UT, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Pay for this job roughly doubles depending on the state. That is a lot. Some of it is prices, because dear places pay more to make up for costing more. Most of it is not. In real money the range is still $35,839 to $88,033.
- This is a small job: about 62,960 people nationally. Fewer workers means each state figure is built on less data.
- Coverage is complete — all 51 jurisdictions publish this, on a middle wage of $74,310. Nothing is missing.
- Interstate variation in cardiovascular technologists and technicians pay approaches twofold nominally. The standard explanation — that high-wage states are merely high-cost states — is only partly supported here: after tax and price adjustment the range remains $35,839 to $88,033, so the majority of the gap represents a real difference in what the work buys.
- With 62,960 workers, cardiovascular technologists and technicians is among the smaller occupations BLS publishes. Treat single-state figures as indicative rather than precise; suppression and sampling error both bite harder at this scale.
- Coverage for cardiovascular technologists and technicians is complete at 51 jurisdictions. No suppression applies, so the highest and lowest figures above are genuinely the national extremes.
Pay band: Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,310 |
| Top tenth earn over | $121,350 |
| This salary | $74,310 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians
The national median for this job
$74,310around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $39,000 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $74,310 |
| Top tenth | $121,350 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Mississippi · $38,000 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Utah · $113,510 |
| Spread | $75,510 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $53,000 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $54,541 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| UT | $113,510 | $83,633 | $88,033 |
| ID | $100,100 | $74,798 | $81,814 |
| RI | $104,000 | $78,407 | $77,315 |
| WY | $84,140 | $68,022 | $74,875 |
| HI | $111,730 | $80,384 | $74,012 |
| MA | $105,580 | $78,147 | $72,199 |
| MT | $82,850 | $63,795 | $70,692 |
| CO | $94,190 | $71,657 | $70,680 |
| IA | $78,850 | $61,916 | $69,752 |
| OH | $79,270 | $63,133 | $68,763 |
| CT | $94,940 | $71,149 | $68,617 |
| AR | $74,800 | $59,143 | $68,367 |
| TN | $76,650 | $62,753 | $67,830 |
| IN | $79,380 | $62,362 | $67,649 |
| OR | $99,240 | $70,512 | $67,333 |
| DE | $87,640 | $65,932 | $66,428 |
| MI | $80,650 | $62,390 | $66,243 |
| DC | $99,380 | $73,265 | $66,121 |
| ME | $82,050 | $62,328 | $64,191 |
| NH | $83,100 | $67,291 | $63,877 |
| SD | $67,290 | $56,169 | $63,759 |
| MD | $86,440 | $65,898 | $63,385 |
| MO | $73,680 | $58,138 | $63,358 |
| AK | $79,040 | $64,435 | $63,348 |
| NY | $89,570 | $67,598 | $62,808 |
| GA | $78,070 | $60,455 | $62,519 |
| WI | $74,380 | $58,195 | $62,511 |
| WA | $83,790 | $67,776 | $62,431 |
| ND | $65,890 | $55,097 | $62,206 |
| FL | $77,140 | $63,098 | $60,993 |
| NV | $71,240 | $58,947 | $60,783 |
| KS | $69,060 | $53,849 | $59,855 |
| AZ | $74,900 | $60,052 | $59,396 |
| VA | $76,880 | $59,255 | $58,815 |
| NJ | $82,710 | $63,938 | $58,722 |
| VT | $69,620 | $55,323 | $57,250 |
| MN | $71,520 | $55,804 | $56,702 |
| KY | $60,980 | $49,161 | $54,340 |
| CA | $78,170 | $60,641 | $53,865 |
| NE | $60,000 | $48,364 | $53,514 |
| SC | $59,170 | $48,116 | $51,639 |
| IL | $61,870 | $48,975 | $49,542 |
| PA | $58,090 | $47,072 | $48,279 |
| NC | $55,460 | $45,038 | $47,842 |
| LA | $50,050 | $41,280 | $46,726 |
| TX | $53,000 | $44,766 | $46,067 |
| NM | $47,340 | $39,149 | $43,314 |
| AL | $47,650 | $38,426 | $42,710 |
| WV | $45,910 | $37,797 | $42,104 |
| OK | $44,900 | $36,737 | $41,612 |
| MS | $38,000 | $31,285 | $35,839 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for this job, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $74,310 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for this job, no children, no pension contributions, standard deduction. Real life usually reduces the tax bill below this. City and school-district income taxes are left out, and in Ohio or Pennsylvania that is a real omission. The best after-tax state here is Utah, at $83,633.
- One price figure per state stands behind the real-terms numbers for this job. Inside any state, a big city costs far more than a small town, so this is a fair way to compare states with each other and a poor way to price a specific move. The wage figures and the price figures are also from different years. At the bottom of the range sits Mississippi, on $35,839.
- All wage figures for cardiovascular technologists and technicians are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $74,310. Within-state dispersion typically exceeds between-state dispersion in this data, so an individual's expected wage is determined more by experience, sector and employer than by the state comparisons presented here.
- Retained-pay figures for cardiovascular technologists and technicians model a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax deferrals — deliberately the simplest household, so the comparison across states isolates geography rather than personal circumstances. Local income taxes are outside the model; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland residents should expect a meaningfully lower figure than $83,633, which leads in Utah.
- Real-terms results for cardiovascular technologists and technicians rest on statewide regional price parities, which average over intra-state variation that is itself larger than much of the interstate variation. They support comparison between states and not the pricing of an individual relocation; Mississippi anchors the distribution at $35,839. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.