Whakawhiwhinga
ARRT certification (radiologic technologist)
The national certification behind almost every medical imaging job in the United States — and one of the few where the issuing body publishes how many people hold it, so the gap against employment can actually be seen.
Kāore he whika utu whakamātautau.
Kāore he roa o te whakaakoranga kotahi - ka whakaritea e te āhua.
Kāore he wā whakamutu - kāore he tau tōtika hei whakamutu. He iti iho te utu.
Ki te kore e taea te whakamātautau i te whika i runga ake nei, kāore e whakaputaina e tātau he whakaaro, engari he whakataunga.
He aha te take kāore he tau tōtika i tēnei wāhi?
No cost figure appears here because we could not source one honestly. Federal programme-level data is published at four-digit CIP granularity, and radiography sits inside CIP 51.09 together with respiratory therapy, surgical technology and several other allied-health programmes. Publishing that blended figure as the cost of a radiography education would be a number about something else wearing this page's label, so there is none.
ARRT requires an accredited educational programme, which for the radiography pathway means an associate degree or higher — normally two years full time — plus documented clinical competencies and a national exam.
Certification renews annually and requires 24 hours of continuing education every two years.
He tokomaha nga tāngata e pupuri ana i tēnei, he tokomaha hoki e mahi ana i roto i te āpure.
Ko te tau e waiho ana te whika utu i waho
O te 371,444 people holding at least one ARRT credential i tatautia i roto 2026, Ko te pūkete mahi ā-rohe e whakawāteatia ana mō 308,030 Ka mahi i roto i nga mahi e hiahiatia ana mō — 82.9%. Ka noho 63,414 Kāore e whakaarotia e te kaipupuri.
Ko taua rerekētanga he tepe o runga, ehara i te mokatere kore mahi. Kāore te pupuri i tētahi tohu i te ōrite ki te rapu i tētahi mahi me ia. Kei roto i te rerekētanga ko ia katoa i neke ki te whakahaere, te whakaakoranga, te hoko, te arotakenga, he mahi pāhono rānei i ngā pūkete raraunga ā-rohe i raro i tētahi mahi rerekē; ko ia tangata i whakamutua, i mahue rānei i te whakawhiwhinga; ko ia tangata e mahi ana i te wā wātea, i te kaimahi, i te mahi takitahi rānei i tētahi āhuatanga kāore i te whiwhi i te uiuinga mahi; me te tangata katoa e pupuri ana hei aho tuarua ki tētahi atu mahi. Nā reira ko te rerekētanga ko te CEILING i te maha o ngā tāngata whakaakoranga kāore e mahi i tēnei āpure - he iti iho te tau tūturu, ā, kāore he tatau o tētahi tangata kāore i te mahi. Ko te mea e whakatū ana te takirua ko te rahi o te pūrere ko te tau utu i whakaputaina, ko te mea kāore he wāhi utu e whakaatu ana ki a koe.
Ko nga taha e rua he tau tūturu. Ko ngā kaipupuri i tētahi rā ki te mahi i tētahi wā — ko te momo ōrite o te nui, ko te take anake ka taea te wehe i ngā mea e rua.
Ko te mea kei roto i taua tatau: Individuals — not credentials. ARRT publishes both: 371,444 people between them hold 588,615 credentials, because a technologist commonly certifies in more than one modality. 341,659 of them hold the radiography credential. The count includes holders outside the 50 states (Canada 708, other countries 259, military addresses 167); the US states-only subtotal is 369,872. It counts everyone whose credential is current, including people who have stopped working but keep renewing.
Ko te kaituhi: people holding at least one ARRT credential = 371,444 (Standing count of people holding the credential, ARRT census, last updated July 2026) · ARRT, Credential Statistics by Location and Discipline census · kitenga
The four occupations below are the ones ARRT credentials are for. Some holders work as diagnostic medical sonographers, imaging managers, educators or equipment applications specialists, all of which federal data files elsewhere — which is part of why the unaccounted-for figure is a ceiling rather than a measurement.
He aha te take o nga tāngata i oti te whakaakoranga?
E whā tau i muri i te oti — he whika mō te waehere papatono, ehara i te mea mō tēnei mahi anake.
Ko te mea 29,788 ngā tāngata i oti Allied health diagnostic and treatment, associate's degree Kāore anō rātau kia ako i te whā tau i muri mai, 1,226 Kāore i whiwhi i te moni i runga i te pūkete — 4.1%. Ko ērā i mahi i whiwhi i tētahi tauwaenga o te 100. $65,389, me te haurua o waenganui i waenganui $46,431 me $84,999.
Kāore he "whakahaere i te pūkete" e kore ana e "kore mahi". Ko te inenga ko te korenga o tētahi pūkete utu me tētahi moni whiwhinga tōrunga mō te tau katoa. Kāore i pātaihia e tētahi mēnā e hiahiatia ana e rātou te mahi, nō reira ka pupuri te tatau i ngā tāngata i mahue te kaha mahi i te kōwhiringa - te whakawhanake i ngā tamariki, te tiaki, te haere, te noho i runga i te moni whiwhinga o tētahi atu tangata, te neke atu ki waho - i te taha o ia e hiahia ana ki tētahi mahi ā, kāore i te whai. Kāore e whakaputaina e tētahi te wehenga, ā, kāore e whakaaro ana tātau. Ko te mea e whakatau ana he maha ngā tāngata i oti tēnei whakaakoranga, ā, kāore i whiwhi i tētahi atu mea mai i a ia, mai i ētahi atu mea rānei i te whā tau, ko te mea e kore e taea e te tau o te utu ki runga te kī ki a koe.
Kāore tēnei whika i te hāngai ki tēnei mahi. Ka whakaputaina e te kāwanatanga ā iwi ngā hua o te papatono i te mārō-whā-mati, ā, kāore i te tino pai ake, ā, ka tiritiri ngā papatono o tēnei tohu i tō rātou waehere ki ētahi atu, nō reira ka whakaahuatia e te whika ngā tangata katoa i oti i tētahi mea i raro i taua waehere i tēnei taumata, ehara i te tangata anake i haere ki te mahi i tēnei mahi.
Ko te mea e tautuhi ana te waehere papatono: CIP 51.09 is the broadest code on this page and it is shared. Radiography, respiratory therapy, surgical technology, cardiovascular technology, sonography, perfusion, athletic training and physician assistant studies are all inside it, and the Department publishes no split. At associate level the code is dominated by imaging, respiratory and surgical technology; at master's level by physician assistant programmes, which is why the earnings jump. No figure here is specific to any one of those occupations and it must not be quoted as though it were.
The associate level of this code is dominated by imaging, respiratory therapy and surgical technology together. It is the closest federal measurement to a radiography outcome and it is still not one.
Ko wai i roto i te kohoro: Ko te nuinga o nga kaiako i whiwhi i te āwhina ā-iwi o te ākonga - tata ki te haurua o nga ākonga US, ā, kāore i te ine i tēnei wāhi. Ko ngā tāngata i haere ki te akoranga ā-whāiti, kāore i roto i te tīwae kotahi. Ko te Tari e whakakore ana i ngā whare wānanga me ngā rōpū iti rawa hei whakaputa, ā, ka tāpiri i te pōhēhētanga tatauranga ki te toenga, nō reira ko tēnei he taumaha i runga i ngā whare wānanga nui rawa ki te pūrongo: 487 o rātau, e whakaora ana 84.6% Ko te tatau ā-motu o te Tari mō tēnei papatono. Ka neke te mokatere o te whakawāteatanga o ngā papatono pūrongo iti rawa 0.1 Ko ngā pūwāhi ōrautanga.
Ka taea te whakataki te pūtake: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · kitenga · te taurite ōrite mō ia papatono ka taea e tātau te whakaputa
Ko te mea e whakaae ana ia kia mahia e koe
Ko te utu e pā ana ki te mahi, ehara i te tohu. Ko ēnei ngā mahi e whakaaetia ana e ia.
| He mahi | E hiahiatia ana? | Median | Ka mahi |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radiologic Technologists and Technicians | Legally required to hold the job | $80,110 | 230,490 |
| Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists ARRT is one of two routes into MRI; ARDMS certifies the other. |
Not legally required, but the usual route | $95,480 | 43,390 |
| Nuclear Medicine Technologists ARRT and the NMTCB both certify this work. |
Not legally required, but the usual route | $101,370 | 17,080 |
| Radiation Therapists | Legally required to hold the job | $105,310 | 17,070 |
Ko te utu me te mahi pāpāho: BLS Kaimahi me ngā Tatauranga Uara, Mei 2025.
E utu ana rātau mō rātau anō?
Ko te mahi e whakawātea ana tēnei e utu ana i tētahi tauwaenga o $80,110, i tua atu i tētahi mātauranga-whakahaeretanga o te mahi o te tauwhāiti o te tau. $50,020 i roto i ia mahi e whakaputaina ana e tātau — he utu e tata ana ki te $30,090 Kāore e taea e tātau te tahuri i taua wā ki tētahi wā whakawhiwhinga, nā te mea kāore he tau tūturu mō te utu o tēnei ki te whiwhi — ko te hāwhe o te tatau tūturu, i whakaputaina hoki, ā, kāore te taha o te hāwhe i a tātau.
Ka pānui tēnei hei whakataurite ki tētahi mahi noa iho, ehara i te āhua o tōmu mahi. He aha taua raina taketake, me te mea e waiho ana i waho
Ka whakaaro hoki ka whiwhi i te mahi. Ko ia whika utu i tēnei pae e whakawhāiti ana ki te whakawhiwhinga ki te mahi. Ko te whakaaro tonu ko te tatau o te kaipupuri tohu i runga ake nei kia whakamātautia, ā, ko te whakaaro tonu e mahi ai ia atu pae utu.
Ko te mea e hiahiatia ana e koe i mua i te tīmatanga
- An ARRT-recognised educational programme
- Documented clinical competency requirements
- An ethics review — ARRT screens convictions individually
Kāore i te mahi tēnei mēnā
- you are not prepared to keep certifying — most technologists add modalities over a career, and each is another exam
- you cannot meet the clinical-competency requirements, which need a placement, not just coursework
Ko ngā tohu katoa, e te wā whakawhiwhinga · He pēhea te tatau i tēnei · Ka rapu i tētahi atu mea