Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other

$50,290 against a $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — $270 apart. Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other pays what the average job pays, so the decision has to be made on the work, the entry cost and the spread rather than on the wage.

With 182,610 in the occupation, Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other is a big field with a visible internal market. Big fields reward moving: the pay you can negotiate on arrival usually beats what the annual review will give you for staying.

This work suits people who want into healthcare through a specific competence rather than a general one, and who are content that the scope of the role is drawn by regulation.

We carry no verified training length for Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

Between $44,170 and $64,340 there is $20,170, a ratio of 1.5x. Tight distributions are predictable, and predictable cuts both ways: little risk of being badly underpaid, little prospect of doing much better.

At $44,170 — $21.23 an hour — the 25th percentile of this field sits essentially at the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint. Being in the bottom quarter of Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other still means being paid like the average American worker.

Avoid it if you would want to broaden later; moving beyond this scope generally means retraining, not promotion.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 182,610 people employed as Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

The quarters are $44,170 and $64,340, a ratio of 1.5x. In a distribution this narrow, the biggest single lever on your pay in Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other is the cost of living where you do it.

The middle half of this field earns between $44,170 and $64,340. That is $20,170 of range, with $50,290 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Between $44,170 and $64,340 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $50,290. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $14,050; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $20,170.

From $50,290 the drop to $44,170 is $6,120 and the climb to $64,340 is $14,050. When the upper half of the range is that much longer, the average is pulled well above the median — which is exactly why this site publishes the median.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $24.17 at the midpoint for Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other, $21.23 at the 25th percentile and $30.93 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.