Occupation / job
Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars
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
A midpoint of $68,020 against $50,020 means Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars pays $1,500 a month more than the typical American job. At that distance the entry requirement is the real subject, because it is what the premium is buying.
With 38,100 employed as Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars, most metros have a working market: several employers, visible turnover, and the ability to change jobs without moving house.
These healthcare roles sit at the edge of the clinical team and suit people who want health work organised around a defined technique or population rather than around a ward.
How long it takes to become one of the 38,100 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
At 2.0x, from $48,940 to $95,630, the two halves of Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars are not really doing the same job. $3,890 a month separates them, and something other than the title explains it.
At $48,940 — $23.52 an hour — the 25th percentile of this field sits essentially at the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint. Being in the bottom quarter of Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars still means being paid like the average American worker.
Avoid it if you need a large local market — these roles exist in far fewer settings than the mainstream clinical ones.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 38,100 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 $48,940 and $95,630, employer type, sub-speciality or credential is doing the sorting that the job title is not.
In cash terms the middle half of Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars runs $48,940 to $95,630 — $46,690 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $68,020.
Getting to $95,630, the 75th percentile, is worth $27,610 a year more than the $68,020 midpoint and $46,690 more than the $48,940 a quarter of Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars settle for.
$27,610 separates $68,020 from the $95,630 top quarter, while only $19,080 separates it from $48,940. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $23.52 at the bottom quarter, $32.70 at the midpoint, $45.97 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $68,020 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars, the hourly figure is $68,020 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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