Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other
What the pay figures show
- For once the obvious answer is right. Wyoming pays this job best, at $80,520. It keeps that lead after tax. It keeps it after local prices too — $72,072 in comparable money. Most jobs are not this tidy.
- The nominal leader for health technologists and technicians, all other is also the real leader: Wyoming at $80,520, holding through tax and through price deflation to $72,072. 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
$50,290
People doing it
182,610
Highest paid
$80,520
WY
Best off, really
$72,072
WY, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$38,180
Highest tenth
$85,270
Lowest, really
$36,723
MS
States with data
51
National average
$58,710
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
90.85%
WY, 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 $36,723 to $72,072.
- About 182,610 Americans work in this job, on a middle wage of $50,290. Big enough that where you live changes the arithmetic.
- No gaps here — all 51 jurisdictions publish a number for this job, which sits at $50,290 in the middle.
- Interstate variation in health technologists and technicians, all other 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 $36,723 to $72,072, so the majority of the gap represents a real difference in what the work buys.
- With 182,610 workers, health technologists and technicians, all other sits in the middle of the BLS headcount distribution. The state-level spread described above therefore applies to a meaningful population rather than a niche one.
- 51 jurisdictions report health technologists and technicians, all other, giving full coverage. The extremes quoted above are therefore the true reported maximum and minimum.
Pay band: Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,290 |
| Top tenth earn over | $85,270 |
| This salary | $50,290 |
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 Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other
The national median for this job
$50,290around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $38,180 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $50,290 |
| Top tenth | $85,270 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Mississippi · $39,010 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Wyoming · $80,520 |
| Spread | $41,510 |
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 | $47,870 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $49,262 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WY | $80,520 | $65,476 | $72,072 |
| DE | $78,650 | $60,200 | $60,653 |
| SD | $52,970 | $44,741 | $50,788 |
| ME | $61,490 | $48,757 | $50,214 |
| VT | $59,470 | $48,150 | $49,826 |
| MN | $59,540 | $47,495 | $48,259 |
| WA | $62,090 | $52,069 | $47,963 |
| KS | $54,180 | $42,979 | $47,773 |
| CO | $59,430 | $48,025 | $47,371 |
| ND | $49,480 | $41,937 | $47,348 |
| WV | $51,580 | $42,114 | $46,912 |
| MT | $51,620 | $41,987 | $46,526 |
| RI | $57,800 | $46,875 | $46,222 |
| NH | $57,580 | $48,446 | $45,987 |
| AZ | $56,370 | $46,467 | $45,959 |
| TN | $49,180 | $41,696 | $45,070 |
| WI | $51,350 | $41,762 | $44,858 |
| AK | $54,070 | $45,625 | $44,856 |
| NY | $60,320 | $47,987 | $44,587 |
| KY | $49,410 | $40,269 | $44,512 |
| IA | $47,910 | $39,467 | $44,461 |
| MA | $60,500 | $48,087 | $44,427 |
| OR | $60,390 | $45,969 | $43,897 |
| NJ | $58,300 | $47,351 | $43,488 |
| HI | $59,900 | $47,200 | $43,459 |
| CA | $60,390 | $48,887 | $43,424 |
| OH | $47,570 | $39,811 | $43,361 |
| NV | $49,620 | $42,050 | $43,359 |
| IN | $47,960 | $39,331 | $42,665 |
| ID | $47,220 | $38,472 | $42,080 |
| OK | $45,330 | $37,063 | $41,981 |
| NE | $46,140 | $37,858 | $41,889 |
| TX | $47,870 | $40,644 | $41,825 |
| MI | $48,520 | $39,354 | $41,785 |
| MO | $46,040 | $37,947 | $41,353 |
| GA | $49,310 | $39,939 | $41,302 |
| AR | $42,820 | $35,460 | $40,991 |
| NM | $44,260 | $36,807 | $40,722 |
| NC | $46,480 | $38,181 | $40,558 |
| DC | $55,920 | $44,923 | $40,542 |
| IL | $49,930 | $39,972 | $40,435 |
| SC | $44,840 | $37,552 | $40,301 |
| UT | $47,490 | $38,225 | $40,236 |
| CT | $51,030 | $41,126 | $39,663 |
| AL | $43,600 | $35,350 | $39,291 |
| PA | $46,720 | $38,285 | $39,267 |
| VA | $47,340 | $38,256 | $37,972 |
| LA | $39,730 | $33,297 | $37,690 |
| FL | $45,760 | $38,948 | $37,649 |
| MD | $47,750 | $38,643 | $37,169 |
| MS | $39,010 | $32,056 | $36,723 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for this job as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $50,290, which means half of everyone doing this work earns less than that. Where you land depends on how long you have done it, who you do it for, and which city you do it in.
- Take-home figures for this job assume one person filing alone, with no dependants and nothing going into a pension before tax. Any of those lowers the tax and raises what you keep, so treat these as the plain case rather than your case. Local city income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those matter. In Wyoming, the best state after tax, the figure works out at $65,476.
- 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 $36,723.
- These are distribution medians for health technologists and technicians, all other, with a national value of $50,290. They describe a midpoint rather than an expected offer, and the within-occupation spread — visible in the tenth and ninetieth percentile figures — is wide enough that a state-level median is a weak predictor for any individual worker.
- Take-home calculations for health technologists and technicians, all other assume a single filer with no dependants, the standard deduction, and no pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figures function as a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape; the highest such figure is $65,476, in Wyoming. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and parts of a few other states.
- Real-terms results for health technologists and technicians, all other 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 $36,723. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.