Occupation / job
Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians pays $74,310 at the midpoint, 49% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.
62,960 people are employed in this work. Big enough for a real market in every major metro, small enough that experience in Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians is still a distinguishing thing to have.
These roles suit people who want to be genuinely expert at one clinical technique, applied all day, to people who need it done properly.
How long it takes to become one of the 62,960 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.
Who should not do this
A quarter earn under $47,890, a quarter over $98,110: $4,185 a month between them at a 2.0x ratio. Planning around the midpoint of a spread this wide is planning around a number very few people in Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians actually earn.
The bottom quarter of Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians earns under $47,890, which is within $2,130 of the $50,020 typical American job. An occupation whose 25th percentile is level with the national middle has an unusually forgiving downside.
Avoid it if you would want to broaden later; moving beyond this scope generally means retraining, not promotion.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 62,960 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
A 2.0x ratio says the label covers materially different work. Somewhere between $47,890 and $98,110, employer type, sub-speciality or credential is doing the sorting that the job title is not.
The middle half of this field earns between $47,890 and $98,110. That is $50,220 of range, with $74,310 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Getting to $98,110, the 75th percentile, is worth $23,800 a year more than the $74,310 midpoint and $50,220 more than the $47,890 a quarter of Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians settle for.
There is $26,420 between $47,890 and $74,310, and $23,800 between $74,310 and $98,110. The lower half of the range is marginally the longer one — worth knowing if you would be entering Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians at the bottom of it.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $35.72 at the midpoint for Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians, $23.02 at the 25th percentile and $47.16 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians. The self-employed are excluded, so $74,310 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians, the hourly figure is $74,310 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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