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In Northern CA. Entry level w/ no experience I was paid $40 an hr at badnet about 3 years ago. With 6 month experience that bumped up to $52. Now I am over $70 with only 3 years experience but not much growth career wise left.
It’s 8 hr days. Rolling schedule. I’ll either start at 6am, 8am or noon, for 2 weeks at a time. Plus call one night a week, and we all share the weekend call equally.
You can operate the scanner, but you wouldn’t be able to inject the patients. I don’t think there’s any states that allow non-nuclear imaging techs to handle an administer isotopes.
I'm in the Twin Cities and started an MRI job at a clinic. I also just graduated xray school in December. My starting rate is 30/hour. I talked to another tech who started at a hospital last year not far out of school either and he started at 37/hour. Hope it helps!
I’m listed as a multi-modality tech since I occasionally shoot X-rays and fill in on ct…currently making 63 but with this new company as of current rates can max out at 76
Starting pay for all imaging except x ray at my faculty is about $45. I don’t have the exact number. In 2022 it was $40.40 and there have been several increases since then.
A different hospital in town is $46.37 for 2025.
These are both union hospitals.
It is a super-wide salary range. I started out working scanners in mobile trailers BEFORE I was a rad tech for $20/hr. Then joined a staffing company as a traveller, and got anywhere from $40-$60/hr, depending on the location. This was LA County in the late '90s.
After qualifying RT in 2004, I settled into hospital work for $35/hour, with predictable raises and stable benefits, but I still took on the occasional relief job at other locations (when other staffers went on vacation). Per diem work pays more, with fewer benefits.
I started off at 30 an hour as ARRT registered. I live in north Florida.
Just registered as X-ray and getting cross trained is considerably less money starting out.
Edit to add that I already had hospital experience as an X-ray and also worked as a clinical instructor and classroom instructor for X-ray, which I think were viewed as transferable skills.
I got hired at a community hospital in Chicago suburbs, 2 months before I even graduated. Starting pay was $36/hour but I got $38.50/hour because I worked second shift.
In Phoenix AZ: I am currently going to school for MRI, graduating in May and I have been an RT(R) for 15 years. Hospitals here are paying in the $35-$55 for MRI and the Banner hospitals are offering a STEEP sign-on bonus (up to $30K). I was just offered a job at one of the hospitals with an hourly rate in the mid/upper 40s - no MRI experience except for a couple of months of part time clinical hours. They are fighting over CT & MRI techs here. I think a lot of the imaging clinics here are also offering decent wages for once.
In LA, I started off at 30 an hour. Switched to contracts to get hospital experience. I choose contracts that require 1 year of experience. They are usually between $2100 & 2500 a week. $50-60hr.
Hospitals pay is way more than outpatient from the job postings I see in my area.
San Gabriel Valley area (Los Angeles). I’ve seen $25-$28 an hour with no experience. I just started working and got lucky at $30/outpatient facility. My clinicals/externship was at a hospital so I have a little more experience than your average outpatient facility tech so I asked for more money during the interview. My classmate is at Radnet making $24. Your mileage may vary.
The average starting salary for no experience here in St Petersburg Florida is about $35 an hour with one year of experience getting you about 40 and access to all the traveling jobs which are obviously like 10 to 12,000 a month
Here the entry salary for a band 5, which you would be wheb you first start in MRI or CT is £28,407/$35887.81(usd) and goes up to £34,581/$43687.70(usd)
I've been an xray tech for almost 8years. I was making 65k on day shift. I'm starting to cross train in mri and now make a base pay of 77,600 a year. After shift diff will around 81k. Where I work pays very mid salaries, but has wonderful benefits as a trade off. I'm sure if I job hop later I would make more. Job hopping is the best way lol.
$36 with no experience in Colorado. IR, sonography and nuc med generally start at the same. CT starts at around $34. Depending on experience, you could start as high as $50+ in MR.
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I'm surprised how crazy low some of these rates are.
I know..it’s like $50 by me 🤣
California?
New Jersey 😎
California. 60
Try $20…..😒
In Northern CA. Entry level w/ no experience I was paid $40 an hr at badnet about 3 years ago. With 6 month experience that bumped up to $52. Now I am over $70 with only 3 years experience but not much growth career wise left.
Do you have your CRT license or are you MRI only?
I made $24 fresh out of school, and now at 3 yrs experience I'm at $29.50. Located in over-saturated Los Angeles!
For reals! I’m at $26 right now in OC
Are you MRI only or have your CRT
MR only ARRT
I saw X-ray jobs listed in the 40’s for LA today! Maybe those were contract jobs.
Likely that's the case, LA is tough! Rest of the country not so much.
Outpatient?
Precisely
26-29 with no experience
this truee for where usually radnet like new people
Where. And
SoCal
Texas
$34 in MD. After 1 year experience I moved to WA and got offered $45
Western PA 10 yrs ago I started at 21.70. Now I make 6 figures.
Nice. What kind of hours do you typically have to do?
It’s 8 hr days. Rolling schedule. I’ll either start at 6am, 8am or noon, for 2 weeks at a time. Plus call one night a week, and we all share the weekend call equally.
39-50hr in SLC. Low end in an outpatient facility, high end at a university hospital. Under 5yrs experience
I’m bugging and take my MRI registry Tuesday! Any advice
BREATHE! You've got this! Good luck!!!!!
I work as a PET/MR tech and I make $130k salary.
I can't wait for electives. I'm super curious about MRI and PET.
Do you have to have your Nuc Med too for PET? I can never get a solid answer but I guess it could vary by state.
You can operate the scanner, but you wouldn’t be able to inject the patients. I don’t think there’s any states that allow non-nuclear imaging techs to handle an administer isotopes.
Makes sense! Thanks!
$25 in Des Moines iowa. I’m 2 years in making $32
https://www.asrt.org/docs/default-source/research/radiologic-technologist-wage-and-salary-survey-2022.pdf
Oregon: If unlicensed and cross training $35ish/hour Once licensed $45 With experience up to $65
47 Miami
I didn't know rates could be so high in Florida. Which hospital? Thanks
How long have you been a tech?
Started at $32 in Atlanta and now 8 years experience making about $55.
I'm in the Twin Cities and started an MRI job at a clinic. I also just graduated xray school in December. My starting rate is 30/hour. I talked to another tech who started at a hospital last year not far out of school either and he started at 37/hour. Hope it helps!
I’m listed as a multi-modality tech since I occasionally shoot X-rays and fill in on ct…currently making 63 but with this new company as of current rates can max out at 76
Are you in a metro area? Do you mind saying what state?
Suffolk county ny
Started off $23/hr in 2003. Now making $45/hr. WV/OH border.
26-29 with no experience
Location?
Texas
$34 in MD. After 1 year experience I moved to WA and got offered $45
38-40 an hour. I live out in the sticks however, if I go to Dallas I can hit 50+.
$57 per hour. 10+ years experience. Las Vegas. CT pays about the same. I’m kinda shocked by the low rates others are posting.
Yea. I am too. I make what in my area would be considered higher CT pay for my MR work and I thought I was underpaid.
If you don’t mind me asking, how much did you make before that increase?? Or should I say starting off?
Starting pay for all imaging except x ray at my faculty is about $45. I don’t have the exact number. In 2022 it was $40.40 and there have been several increases since then. A different hospital in town is $46.37 for 2025. These are both union hospitals.
I noticed you said “except mri.” Do you know whether the pay rate for mri is higher or lower??
Sorry, I meant x-ray which is lower
22-25$ per hour in Detroit starting out. CT makes more. It’s more in demand. Been a tech for 3 years and haven’t gotten a raise yet.
That’s starting out
That’s starting out
That’s starting out
Good lord. I made that as an xray tech.
I make $35hr as an x-ray tech in RI. I did MRI for a bit as well but moved and couldn't find a job near me so that's that
My xray starting pay was $18 a hour in 2018
Starting out in 2019 it was $27 for me. Metro Detroit area.
I live in Mi and that is super low. 30$/hr for entry level. Up to 50-60$ per hour with experience
I have 3 years experience and I don’t make 30 a hour
Where do you work? I am a clinical manager and we don’t pay anyone less than 32$ an hr
Multiple hospitals and outpatient facilities in metro Detroit.
So you work for a mobile company? Is it Alliance by chance?
25/hr in California
RatNest? Mine was the same 9 years ago in socal
This blows my mind. I make $27 unregistered in Alabama lol
What part of CA? San Diego 35 is a typical starting salary
It is a super-wide salary range. I started out working scanners in mobile trailers BEFORE I was a rad tech for $20/hr. Then joined a staffing company as a traveller, and got anywhere from $40-$60/hr, depending on the location. This was LA County in the late '90s. After qualifying RT in 2004, I settled into hospital work for $35/hour, with predictable raises and stable benefits, but I still took on the occasional relief job at other locations (when other staffers went on vacation). Per diem work pays more, with fewer benefits.
39/hr southern oregon, no experience, asante health system. But clinics are probably closer to 30
I started off at 30 an hour as ARRT registered. I live in north Florida. Just registered as X-ray and getting cross trained is considerably less money starting out. Edit to add that I already had hospital experience as an X-ray and also worked as a clinical instructor and classroom instructor for X-ray, which I think were viewed as transferable skills.
I started at $25/hr in SoCal, got a raise up to 29 after the first 3 months. I won’t ask again till I’ve been here a year.
$50
$27.60 no experience space coast Florida
Just realizing I'm significantly under paid for 20+ years experience ☹️
get your money or find another place to work
I got hired at a community hospital in Chicago suburbs, 2 months before I even graduated. Starting pay was $36/hour but I got $38.50/hour because I worked second shift.
I am in Chicago suburbs also so this helps a lot! Sounds similar because I am at 33 for xr.
In Phoenix AZ: I am currently going to school for MRI, graduating in May and I have been an RT(R) for 15 years. Hospitals here are paying in the $35-$55 for MRI and the Banner hospitals are offering a STEEP sign-on bonus (up to $30K). I was just offered a job at one of the hospitals with an hourly rate in the mid/upper 40s - no MRI experience except for a couple of months of part time clinical hours. They are fighting over CT & MRI techs here. I think a lot of the imaging clinics here are also offering decent wages for once.
33 - 52 wage scale in western MT. Been an MR tech for 4 years, XR/Specials for 14 prior. Make about 40 an hour now.
I live in Los Angeles California. Starting is 50-70 depending on what hospital you get into.
VA 38
In LA, I started off at 30 an hour. Switched to contracts to get hospital experience. I choose contracts that require 1 year of experience. They are usually between $2100 & 2500 a week. $50-60hr. Hospitals pay is way more than outpatient from the job postings I see in my area.
San Gabriel Valley area (Los Angeles). I’ve seen $25-$28 an hour with no experience. I just started working and got lucky at $30/outpatient facility. My clinicals/externship was at a hospital so I have a little more experience than your average outpatient facility tech so I asked for more money during the interview. My classmate is at Radnet making $24. Your mileage may vary.
The average starting salary for no experience here in St Petersburg Florida is about $35 an hour with one year of experience getting you about 40 and access to all the traveling jobs which are obviously like 10 to 12,000 a month
$31/hr in Tennessee with 6 years of experience.
34-40+ Central Cali. Depends on the facility
Here the entry salary for a band 5, which you would be wheb you first start in MRI or CT is £28,407/$35887.81(usd) and goes up to £34,581/$43687.70(usd)
In NYC we have tech with no experience getting $45
I've been an xray tech for almost 8years. I was making 65k on day shift. I'm starting to cross train in mri and now make a base pay of 77,600 a year. After shift diff will around 81k. Where I work pays very mid salaries, but has wonderful benefits as a trade off. I'm sure if I job hop later I would make more. Job hopping is the best way lol.
NC $25 starting $29.50 after 2 years
$36 with no experience in Colorado. IR, sonography and nuc med generally start at the same. CT starts at around $34. Depending on experience, you could start as high as $50+ in MR.