Occupation / job
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other
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
At $65,790 against a $50,020 midpoint, Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other pays $15,770 a year more than the typical American job — $7.58 an hour. Nothing pays that much more for free, and the thing it is paid for is what you should be reading about.
At 35,010 employed, this is a mid-sized occupation. In a normal city that means several possible employers and a genuine market rate, which is the point at which knowing the numbers on this page starts to be worth money.
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 35,010 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
The gap between the bottom quarter of Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other at $47,750 and the top quarter at $97,000 is $49,250 — a ratio of 2.0x. Wide enough that the headline median describes almost nobody, and treating it as your number is a planning error.
At $47,750 — $22.95 an hour — the 25th percentile of this field sits essentially at the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint. Being in the bottom quarter of Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other 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.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 35,010 figure counts people already working as Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
A 2.0x ratio says the label covers materially different work. Somewhere between $47,750 and $97,000, employer type, sub-speciality or credential is doing the sorting that the job title is not.
Put in money rather than ratios: $47,750 at the 25th percentile, $65,790 at the midpoint, $97,000 at the 75th. $49,250 separates the quarter of Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Getting to $97,000, the 75th percentile, is worth $31,210 a year more than the $65,790 midpoint and $49,250 more than the $47,750 a quarter of Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other settle for.
It is $18,040 from $65,790 down to $47,750 but $31,210 up to $97,000. When a range leans this far upward, the interesting question is what puts someone in the top half, because the money is disproportionately there.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $31.62 at the midpoint for Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other, $22.95 at the 25th percentile and $46.63 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
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 Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $65,790 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other, the hourly figure is $65,790 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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