Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars in District of Columbia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$58,458
after federal, FICA and District of Columbia tax
Tax takes
$17,002
22.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,758
District of Columbia costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in District of Columbia — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$75,460
Kept after tax
$58,458
Worth in national money
$52,758
State rank
16
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. District of Columbia pays this job a middle wage of $75,460, ranking 16 of 50 states and sitting about 10.94% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 216 among 390 occupations District of Columbia publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $75,460, tax leaves $58,458 — and because District of Columbia is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $52,758 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $80,650, since top earners drag the number up.
- District of Columbia's median for health information technologists and medical registrars is $75,460, about 10.94% above the national figure and 16 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 216 of 390 in District of Columbia places health information technologists and medical registrars in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After tax, $58,458 remains from the District of Columbia median of $75,460 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $52,758 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $80,650 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $51,700 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,460 |
| Top tenth earn over | $125,270 |
| This salary | $75,460 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in District of Columbia | $58,458 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,916 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$10,958 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $70,544 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$14,368 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 111 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of health information technologists and medical registrars in District of Columbia earn under $75,460 and half over. The published range runs $51,700 at the tenth percentile to $125,270 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $58,458 take-home in District of Columbia comes from $75,460. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 216 of 390.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $52,758 uses one figure for the whole of District of Columbia. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 390 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 216.
- Figures are distribution medians for health information technologists and medical registrars in District of Columbia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $51,700 to $125,270; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $58,458, from $75,460, assumes a single District of Columbia filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 216 of 390 locally, and the state ranks 16 of 50 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $52,758, worked from $75,460, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular District of Columbia address, on work sitting at 216 of 390 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $80,650 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $51,700 and the top tenth $125,270 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. District of Columbia costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $52,758 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and District of Columbia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $58,458 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in District of Columbia is $80,650. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($51,700) and the ninetieth ($125,270) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
District of Columbia's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $52,758 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $58,458 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and District of Columbia income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.