Medical Appliance Technicians

Medical Appliance Technicians pays $48,030, effectively level with the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — $1,990 apart, which is inside the noise of a single year’s survey. Treat this as an average-paying occupation and decide it on everything else.

Nationally 11,280 people do this. That is a real occupation with a thin local presence — enough that Medical Appliance Technicians is a career, not enough that you can assume a second employer down the road.

These production roles suit people who value a fixed site, a defined task and hours that end when the shift does, and who are consistent over long repetitive runs.

How long it takes to become one of the 11,280 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.

A quarter of Medical Appliance Technicians earn under $42,210 and a quarter over $60,580 — 1.4x, or $18,370 apart. Narrow spreads usually mean a pay schedule, which is stability bought at the price of upside.

Even the bottom quarter, under $42,210, lands within $7,810 of the $50,020 typical American wage. The downside of Medical Appliance Technicians is not really the money.

Avoid it if you would be unable to move should the plant close, or if repetitive work would grind you down.

You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 11,280 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.

The quarters are $42,210 and $60,580, a ratio of 1.4x. In a distribution this narrow, the biggest single lever on your pay in Medical Appliance Technicians is the cost of living where you do it.

The middle half of this field earns between $42,210 and $60,580. That is $18,370 of range, with $48,030 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Getting to $60,580, the 75th percentile, is worth $12,550 a year more than the $48,030 midpoint and $18,370 more than the $42,210 a quarter of Medical Appliance Technicians settle for.

The upper half of the middle range — $48,030 to $60,580, or $12,550 — is far longer than the lower half at $5,820. In a shape like this an average would flatter Medical Appliance Technicians considerably, and would describe nobody.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $20.29 at the bottom quarter, $23.09 at the midpoint, $29.12 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.