Echo
$96,590
U.S. median, May 2025. Diagnostic medical sonographers.
10th–90th: $67,820 – $129,370
Pay notebook
What the public numbers say
These are occupation-wide wages from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, not a survey of cardiac labs and not a quote from your hospital. Use them to place an offer. Do not treat them as the offer.
Nuclear
$101,370
U.S. median, May 2025. Nuclear medicine technologists.
10th–90th: $78,080 – $134,500
Cardiac CT
$80,110
U.S. median, May 2025. Radiologic technologists and technicians.
10th–90th: $55,980 – $118,660
Cardiac MR
$95,480
U.S. median, May 2025. Magnetic resonance imaging technologists.
10th–90th: $68,890 – $127,670
How to read this
- National medians, 10th percentiles, and 90th percentiles are from the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, May 2025 wage data, reviewed 2026-10-31.
- The 25th and 75th percentiles come from a public OEWS compilation whose 10th, median, and 90th match that handbook release. State rows on the same compilation are labeled May 2024 by the publisher, even though the national median matches May 2025. Treat state figures as public reference ranges and confirm anything you will quote on bls.gov/oes.
- BLS annual wages assume about 2,080 hours. A travel weekly gross is not an annual salary until you account for taxed wages, stipends, and weeks without a contract.
- CardioPay has not collected a self-report dataset. The form below stores notes privately.
By state
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Anchor occupation: Diagnostic medical sonographers (29-2032). U.S. median $96,590 in May 2025, about $46.44 an hour.
BLS does not publish a separate wage for cardiac sonographers. Adult, pediatric, and fetal echo sit inside diagnostic medical sonographers, together with abdominal, OB, breast, and vascular ultrasound. Do not use the cardiovascular technologist series (29-2031) as the echo wage. That series mixes EKG, stress, and other roles and pays less.
| State | Median | Spread, 10th to 90th |
|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | $122,030 | $95,830 – $131,030 |
| California | $120,840 | $58,240 – $173,790 |
| Oregon | $108,230 | $65,620 – $130,860 |
| Washington | $107,360 | $50,590 – $139,160 |
| District of Columbia | $106,130 | $86,280 – $123,760 |
| Colorado | $104,810 | $81,980 – $126,020 |
| Massachusetts | $104,130 | $84,310 – $132,450 |
| Alaska | $103,160 | $51,950 – $128,850 |
| Connecticut | $102,850 | $77,390 – $124,550 |
| New York | $101,930 | $79,150 – $122,400 |
| Vermont | $101,630 | $76,840 – $124,670 |
| Arizona | $101,100 | $79,040 – $125,590 |
| Minnesota | $101,100 | $82,120 – $111,110 |
| Wisconsin | $100,730 | $80,970 – $120,160 |
| New Hampshire | $100,110 | $73,840 – $132,020 |
| New Jersey | $99,940 | $79,660 – $129,480 |
| Rhode Island | $99,650 | $78,390 – $115,890 |
| Illinois | $97,810 | $75,480 – $119,650 |
| Idaho | $97,480 | $74,200 – $107,790 |
| Montana | $97,000 | $77,670 – $111,270 |
| Wyoming | $95,650 | $63,960 – $128,990 |
| Maryland | $95,120 | $69,180 – $114,130 |
| Nevada | $94,370 | $77,820 – $120,650 |
| Missouri | $91,440 | $71,370 – $109,650 |
| Utah | $91,140 | $74,220 – $116,450 |
| Virginia | $89,430 | $62,400 – $118,200 |
| Kansas | $88,170 | $69,790 – $109,180 |
| Delaware | $87,840 | $77,620 – $111,740 |
| Maine | $85,790 | $65,220 – $103,050 |
| Texas | $84,900 | $62,830 – $104,200 |
| Indiana | $84,410 | $65,870 – $101,150 |
| New Mexico | $84,150 | $49,690 – $104,540 |
| Iowa | $83,890 | $69,630 – $100,120 |
| North Dakota | $83,860 | $72,420 – $98,660 |
| North Carolina | $83,480 | $64,730 – $102,140 |
| Florida | $81,240 | $64,540 – $99,840 |
| Ohio | $80,950 | $63,120 – $99,260 |
| South Carolina | $80,490 | $66,520 – $94,270 |
| Oklahoma | $80,470 | $65,120 – $98,910 |
| Kentucky | $80,320 | $56,160 – $100,320 |
| Michigan | $80,300 | $64,670 – $91,250 |
| Georgia | $80,230 | $58,270 – $101,660 |
| Pennsylvania | $79,660 | $63,900 – $102,550 |
| Tennessee | $79,480 | $51,240 – $99,470 |
| Nebraska | $79,250 | $66,620 – $100,740 |
| Arkansas | $78,500 | $63,970 – $96,540 |
| Louisiana | $76,400 | $47,690 – $95,020 |
| South Dakota | $74,880 | $49,160 – $91,820 |
| Mississippi | $73,440 | $55,910 – $85,430 |
| West Virginia | $73,410 | $61,420 – $95,680 |
| Alabama | $66,340 | $47,350 – $82,940 |
National detail
Echo
Diagnostic medical sonographers · SOC 29-2032 · BLS handbook
BLS does not publish a separate wage for cardiac sonographers. Adult, pediatric, and fetal echo sit inside diagnostic medical sonographers, together with abdominal, OB, breast, and vascular ultrasound. Do not use the cardiovascular technologist series (29-2031) as the echo wage. That series mixes EKG, stress, and other roles and pays less.
| Percentile | Annual |
|---|---|
| 10th | $67,820 |
| 25th | $80,430 |
| Median | $96,590 |
| 75th | $106,930 |
| 90th | $129,370 |
Median by industry, May 2025
- Outpatient care centers$127,940
- Administrative and support services$100,350
- Hospitals; state, local, and private$97,390
- Offices of physicians$95,220
- Medical and diagnostic laboratories$87,580
Nuclear
Nuclear medicine technologists · SOC 29-2033 · BLS handbook
This is the public series for nuclear medicine technologists. It is not limited to nuclear cardiology. A cardiac SPECT or PET lab can sit above or below the all-nuclear median depending on call, radiopharmacy duties, and whether the camera also runs general studies.
| Percentile | Annual |
|---|---|
| 10th | $78,080 |
| 25th | $86,720 |
| Median | $101,370 |
| 75th | $117,120 |
| 90th | $134,500 |
Median by industry, May 2025
- Outpatient care centers$171,170
- Medical and diagnostic laboratories$103,410
- Hospitals; state, local, and private$101,280
- Offices of physicians$98,420
Cardiac CT
Radiologic technologists and technicians · SOC 29-2034 · BLS handbook
Cardiac CT is not its own BLS occupation. The anchor here is radiologic technologists and technicians. Techs who only run coronary CTA often describe offers toward the upper part of this range, but that split is not in the BLS table.
| Percentile | Annual |
|---|---|
| 10th | $55,980 |
| 25th | $64,810 |
| Median | $80,110 |
| 75th | $98,750 |
| 90th | $118,660 |
Median by industry, May 2025
- Outpatient care centers$84,720
- Hospitals; state, local, and private$80,650
- Medical and diagnostic laboratories$78,400
- Offices of physicians$74,540
Cardiac MR
Magnetic resonance imaging technologists · SOC 29-2035 · BLS handbook
Cardiac MR is not broken out from all MRI technologists. The median below is for the whole MRI occupation. Congenital and stress-perfusion work is a slice of that job, not a separate government wage.
| Percentile | Annual |
|---|---|
| 10th | $68,890 |
| 25th | $81,040 |
| Median | $95,480 |
| 75th | $106,340 |
| 90th | $127,670 |
Median by industry, May 2025
- Hospitals; state, local, and private$95,920
- Offices of physicians$93,880
- Medical and diagnostic laboratories$93,540
Do not use this number for echo
Cardiovascular technologists and technicians (29-2031) had a May 2025 median of $74,310, with the lowest 10 percent under $39,000 and the highest 10 percent over $121,350. May 2025 median $74,310. CardioPay does not use this series as the cardiac sonographer wage. It is a broader, lower-paid group. If a recruiter quotes it as 'the echo average,' ask which SOC they mean. Handbook page.
Example brackets, not a survey
These brackets are rounded from the public 25th-to-75th spread so an offer has a place to sit. They are teaching examples. They are not CardioPay self-reports, and they are not a named employer's scale.
| Comparison | Example bracket | Where it came from |
|---|---|---|
| Echo, staff, annual | $80,000 to $107,000 | Rounded 25th to 75th percentile for all diagnostic medical sonographers, May 2025. |
| Nuclear, staff, annual | $87,000 to $117,000 | Rounded 25th to 75th percentile for nuclear medicine technologists, May 2025. |
| Cardiac CT, staff, annual | $65,000 to $99,000 | Rounded 25th to 75th percentile for radiologic technologists. Cardiac CT is not its own series. |
| Cardiac MR, staff, annual | $81,000 to $106,000 | Rounded 25th to 75th percentile for MRI technologists. Cardiac MR is not its own series. |
Example math, not a market rate
Suppose a travel contract is quoted at $2,200 a week for 13 weeks. That assignment pays $28,600 before you sort taxable wages from stipend, and before you count the weeks you are not on contract. Multiplying $2,200 by 52 and calling it a $114,400 salary overstates the year. This paragraph is only the arithmetic.
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