Occupation / job
Medical Dosimetrists
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
The $147,470 midpoint is $8,120 a month above the $50,020 typical American job, which puts Medical Dosimetrists near the ceiling of published federal wage data. Everything at this level is gated, and the gate is usually years long.
National employment of 3,410 makes this a small field. Small fields are relationship markets: the people already in Medical Dosimetrists tend to know who is hiring before the posting exists.
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.
How long it takes to become one of the 3,410 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 quarters sit at $132,080 and $167,030, $2,912 a month apart at a ratio of 1.3x. Narrow enough that what you can expect is close to what everyone else gets.
The bottom quarter of this field earns $132,080 — $63.50 an hour, $82,060 above the $50,020 national midpoint. When even the worst-paid quarter of Medical Dosimetrists is this far ahead, the barrier to entry is doing the work of keeping it there.
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. 3,410 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
At 1.3x between $132,080 and $167,030, this is a narrow distribution. $147,470 is a reliable number to plan around, which is worth something — but so is knowing that outperforming the field will not be paid for.
The middle half of this field earns between $132,080 and $167,030. That is $34,950 of range, with $147,470 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
The 75th percentile is $167,030. Reaching it from the $147,470 midpoint is $19,560 a year; reaching it from the $132,080 that the bottom quarter of Medical Dosimetrists earn is $34,950.
The climb from $147,470 to $167,030 is $19,560; the drop to $132,080 is $15,390. A little more room above the midpoint than below it is the normal shape for Medical Dosimetrists and for most paid work, and it is the reason the median is the honest summary rather than the average.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Medical Dosimetrists is $70.89 an hour. The quarters sit at $63.50 and $80.30, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
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 Medical Dosimetrists for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $147,470 describes them.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $147,470 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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