Nuclear Medicine Technologists in Tennessee
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$68,255
after federal, FICA and Tennessee tax
Tax takes
$16,215
19.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$73,777
Tennessee costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Tennessee — 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
$84,470
Kept after tax
$68,255
Worth in national money
$73,777
State rank
42
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Tennessee pays nuclear medicine technologists a middle wage of $84,470, 42 of 49 states and about 16.67% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 491 occupations Tennessee reports, nuclear medicine technologists comes in at 80 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Tennessee is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $84,470 the take-home is $68,255; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $73,777 would nationally. The average comes to $88,550, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Tennessee's $84,470 median for nuclear medicine technologists places it 42 of 49 states, about 16.67% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Nuclear medicine technologists ranks 80 of 491 occupations by median in Tennessee, 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.
- Post-tax income for nuclear medicine technologists in Tennessee, on $84,470, is $68,255 — equivalent to $73,777 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $88,550 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Nuclear Medicine Technologists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $68,640 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $84,470 |
| Top tenth earn over | $108,020 |
| This salary | $84,470 |
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 Tennessee | $68,255 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $68,255 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,538 |
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 | $84,470 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,887 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Tennessee earn less than $84,470. The published range is $68,640 up to $108,020, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Tennessee's $68,255, worked from $84,470. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 80 of 491.
- Two cautions on $73,777, the adjusted value of that $84,470 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Tennessee. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 80 of 491 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for nuclear medicine technologists in Tennessee the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $68,640 to $108,020. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Tennessee take-home of $68,255, on $84,470 for work ranking 80 of 491 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 80 of 491 in the state.
- This $73,777 adjusted figure, worked from $84,470, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 80 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 80 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $88,550, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $68,640 at the bottom tenth to $108,020 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. Tennessee is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $73,777 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $68,255 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 49 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 Tennessee is $88,550. 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 ($68,640 to $108,020) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Tennessee rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Tennessee'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 $73,777 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Tennessee levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $68,255 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.