Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other salary

SOC 29-9099 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$65,790

per year, nationally

Middle half

$47,750–$97,000

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

35,010

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+3.6%

2,600 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$38,660$129,830

10th: $38,660
25th: $47,750
Median: $65,790
75th: $97,000
90th: $129,830

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Postsecondary nondegree award
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: None

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	District of Columbia	$113,640	109.9	130	0.83×
2	New York	$102,990	107.9	1,110	0.51×
3	Kentucky	$91,560	90.2	190	0.43×
4	Missouri	$86,110	90.8	450	0.69×
5	Wisconsin	$81,580	94.1	470	0.70×
6	Indiana	$81,290	93.3	500	0.70×
7	Washington	$80,730	107.0	880	1.10×
8	Massachusetts	$80,240	105.8	310	0.38×
9	Minnesota	$79,990	98.6	410	0.62×
10	New Hampshire	$79,860	104.2	360	2.31×
11	Montana	$79,070	94.6	190	1.68×
12	Connecticut	$78,980	103.6	420	1.11×
13	Michigan	$77,130	96.2	1,160	1.17×
14	New Jersey	$76,570	108.8	720	0.75×
15	Florida	$75,900	103.4	1,070	0.48×
16	California	$75,800	110.7	4,180	1.02×
17	Maryland	$75,000	105.0	2,110	3.39×
18	Colorado	$74,480	103.1	200	0.31×
19	Oklahoma	$73,320	87.8	30	0.08×
20	Illinois	$72,610	100.0	970	0.71×
21	Alabama	$69,520	88.8	80	0.16×
22	Alaska	$68,610	102.4	70	1.00×
23	South Carolina	$67,940	93.7	340	0.66×
24	Utah	$67,320	98.9	160	0.41×
25	Oregon	$67,270	103.4	210	0.48×
26	West Virginia	$66,080	89.5	80	0.53×
27	Nevada	$64,170	100.0	1,020	2.91×
28	Virginia	$63,410	101.1	530	0.57×
29	Tennessee	$63,400	91.9	1,650	2.24×
30	Louisiana	$63,240	88.2	3,900	8.94×
31	Georgia	$63,230	96.3	1,770	1.60×
32	Rhode Island	$63,060	102.3	240	2.16×
33	Arizona	$62,860	100.7	690	0.95×
34	Idaho	$62,490	95.5	110	0.57×
35	Texas	$62,420	97.1	1,460	0.46×
36	Ohio	$60,670	92.8	350	0.28×
37	Wyoming	$60,410	92.7	80	1.25×
38	Vermont	$59,300	98.0	130	1.89×
39	North Carolina	$57,390	94.3	940	0.85×
40	Hawaii	$57,330	110.0	720	5.11×
41	North Dakota	$52,240	89.0	80	0.79×
42	Delaware	$49,990	99.8	90	0.80×
43	Nebraska	$49,400	90.1	200	0.88×
44	Pennsylvania	$45,360	97.6	2,490	1.82×
45	Kansas	$43,430	90.1	270	0.84×
46	Iowa	$42,070	87.8	410	1.16×
47	Mississippi	$37,920	87.0	230	0.88×
48	Arkansas	$37,660	86.9	610	2.08×
49	New Mexico	$35,270	92.2	150	0.77×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$121,850	110.4	260	1.01×
2	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$107,650	108.9	1,030	1.46×
3	Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN	$105,370	93.1	60	0.36×
4	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	$104,330	95.0	100	2.06×
5	San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR	$103,380	—	50	0.31×
6	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$103,220	102.7	120	0.87×
7	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$101,870	112.6	1,340	0.63×
8	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	$100,670	114.2	310	0.48×
9	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$97,510	99.6	40	0.44×
10	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	$96,080	101.4	80	0.24×
11	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$94,910	95.8	70	0.62×
12	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$91,130	103.2	40	0.72×
13	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$90,040	105.6	40	1.78×
14	Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC	$89,800	93.3	70	0.70×
15	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	$89,220	100.9	280	0.85×
16	St. Louis, MO-IL	$86,110	95.1	290	0.96×
17	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$85,470	111.9	240	0.71×
18	Missoula, MT	$83,230	96.4	40	2.42×
19	Madison, WI	$82,820	97.3	90	1.01×
20	Jackson, TN	$82,800	85.5	70	3.60×
21	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$82,430	105.8	150	0.41×
22	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$82,250	95.4	90	0.38×
23	Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	$82,210	100.4	40	1.37×
24	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$81,580	96.9	260	1.40×
25	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$81,270	104.8	310	0.70×
26	Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI	$81,110	95.5	—	—
27	Worcester, MA	$80,820	102.5	30	0.39×
28	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$80,450	115.6	800	1.50×
29	Helena, MT	$80,300	95.7	60	5.94×
30	Manchester-Nashua, NH	$79,870	105.7	100	2.30×
31	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$79,440	100.3	330	0.78×
32	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$78,940	113.6	1,430	1.01×
33	Modesto, CA	$78,310	104.1	30	0.73×
34	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$78,190	100.1	850	1.31×
35	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$77,970	111.1	580	1.24×
36	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$77,910	110.5	40	0.52×
37	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$77,670	108.3	320	0.53×
38	Hammond, LA	$76,940	84.5	120	11.45×
39	Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA	$75,100	85.1	150	7.88×
40	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$75,000	104.5	1,080	3.54×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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Other jobs in the same field, with what each pays nationally.

Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars$68,020
Athletic Trainers$62,520
Surgical Assistants$66,800
Genetic Counselors$100,040

Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other salary

What the range looks like

Getting in

Where healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other earn the most

Best paying metro areas for healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other

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