Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars in Montana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,394
after federal, FICA and Montana tax
Tax takes
$17,746
22.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$68,032
Montana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Montana — 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
$79,140
Kept after tax
$61,394
Worth in national money
$68,032
State rank
11
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Montana's middle earner gets $79,140, putting the state 11 of 50 — about 16.35% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 475 occupations Montana reports, this job comes in at 106 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $79,140 you keep $61,394 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $68,032 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $75,610.
- For health information technologists and medical registrars, Montana sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $79,140, ranking 11 of 50 and running about 16.35% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Health information technologists and medical registrars ranks 106 of 475 occupations by median in Montana, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Retained pay in Montana is $61,394 after the full tax stack, from $79,140. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $68,032 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $75,610 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,920 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $79,140 |
| Top tenth earn over | $97,650 |
| This salary | $79,140 |
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 Montana | $61,394 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,505 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,651 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
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 | $74,719 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,281 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Montana earn less than $79,140. The published range is $50,920 up to $97,650, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $61,394 take-home in Montana comes from $79,140. 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 106 of 475.
- One number stands for prices across all of Montana, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $68,032, the adjusted value of that $79,140 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 106 of 475 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for health information technologists and medical registrars in Montana the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $50,920 to $97,650. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $61,394, from $79,140, assumes a single Montana 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 106 of 475 locally, and the state ranks 11 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Montana, so $68,032 — the adjusted value of that $79,140 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 106 of 475 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 $75,610 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $50,920 at the bottom tenth to $97,650 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Montana is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $68,032 in national terms.
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 Montana adds its own income tax on top — which is why $61,394 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Montana is $75,610. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($50,920 to $97,650) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Montana rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Montana's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $68,032 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $61,394 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Montana 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.