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Medical Lab Technologists
Career and Education Info
Job Numbers and Growth
Government data shows about 167,000 for medical lab technologists. The unemployment rate for this occupation is relatively very low.
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
14% of people working as employees are employed part-time. Medical lab technologists work for themselves about 1% of the time.
Training and Education
Education requirements for this career usually include a bachelor's degree. Approximately 51% of people working as employees have earned a degree. Among medical lab technologists about 35% went to college but did not get a degree. Among workers, 14% have a high school diploma, but no college education. Recommended schools are shown in the column to the right; request information from them to help you decide which, if any, could help you with this career.
Area Job Conditions
Jobs are relatively more common in Burlington (North Carolina), Durham (North Carolina), and Gainesville (Florida), and less common in Reading (Pennsylvania), Santa Cruz (California), and Myrtle Beach (South Carolina).
Average income is highest in Salinas (California), San Jose (California), and Santa Barbara (California) and lowest in New Bedford (Massachusetts), Reading (Pennsylvania), and Spartanburg (South Carolina).
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Medical Lab Technologists: Job and Salary Data by Metropolitan Area
The table below shows data for Medical Lab Technologists, as of 2008. The Popularity in Area number tells you how common jobs for Medical Lab Technologists are in the area, compared to other US metro areas. A value of 1.0 means an average number of people in the position for area population. Lower numbers mean fewer of these positions in the metro area. The most popular areas for Medical Lab Technologists are starred .
State Area Positions Typical Pay Popularity in Area Alabama Anniston 50 $50,790 1 Alabama Birmingham 990 $48,470 1.5 Alabama Dothan 120 $49,050 1.8 Alabama Huntsville 130 $50,150 0.5 Alabama Mobile 290 $48,240 1.3 Alabama Montgomery 170 $46,280 0.8 Alaska Anchorage 180 $61,710 0.9 Arizona Flagstaff 40 $51,880 0.7 Arizona Kingman 60 $45,520 1.1 Arizona Phoenix 2,460 $46,700 1.1 Arizona Prescott 70 $56,060 1 Arizona Tucson 330 $52,670 0.7 Arkansas Fayetteville 110 $48,590 0.5 Arkansas Fort Smith 150 $43,610 1.1 Arkansas Hot Springs 80 $49,120 2.1Arkansas Jonesboro 70 $40,230 1.3 Arkansas Little Rock 770 $51,580 1.9 California Bakersfield 140 $65,550 0.4 California Chico 90 $75,030 1.2 California Fresno 210 $67,500 0.5 California Hanford 50 $55,750 1.7 California Modesto 80 $73,830 0.4 California Napa 70 $71,710 1 California Oakland 820 $75,290 0.6 California Oxnard 130 $70,990 0.4 California Redding 40 $74,540 0.5 California Riverside 700 $68,880 0.4 California Sacramento 640 $58,810 0.6 California Salinas 80 $87,330 0.4 California San Diego 710 $66,740 0.4 California San Francisco 700 $70,020 0.6 California San Jose 920 $83,450 0.8 California San Luis Obispo 40 $74,920 0.4 California Santa Ana 1,190 $63,520 0.6 California Santa Barbara 120 $76,700 0.6 California Santa Cruz 30 $63,620 0.3 California Santa Rosa 200 $72,080 0.9 California Stockton 140 $70,410 0.5 California Vallejo 170 $71,780 1.2 California Visalia 80 $71,510 0.5 Colorado Colorado Springs 320 $53,480 1.1 Colorado Denver 1,780 $54,360 1.1 Colorado Fort Collins 170 $56,190 1.2 Colorado Pueblo 90 $54,930 1.5 Connecticut Bridgeport 370 $64,440 0.7 Connecticut Hartford 700 $60,180 1 Connecticut New Haven 980 $60,430 2.9Connecticut Norwich 110 $64,440 0.8 Delaware Wilmington 350 $56,190 0.9 District of Columbia Washington 2,610 $56,930 0.9 Florida Deltona 190 $54,260 1 Florida Fort Lauderdale 1,130 $54,790 1.2 Florida Fort Walton Beach 70 $44,540 0.8 Florida Gainesville 410 $52,740 3.1Florida Jacksonville 710 $51,520 1 Florida Lakeland 250 $54,640 1.1 Florida Miami 1,300 $55,000 1.1 Florida Naples 90 $56,190 0.6 Florida Ocala 120 $49,340 1.1 Florida Orlando 1,240 $48,850 1 Florida Palm Bay 240 $52,580 1 Florida Pensacola 250 $49,100 1.4 Florida Port St Lucie 100 $55,560 0.7 Florida Punta Gorda 80 $53,210 1.9 Florida Sebastian 60 $50,960 1.2 Florida Tallahassee 130 $50,970 0.7 Florida Tampa 1,880 $51,670 1.2 Florida West Palm Beach 530 $52,630 0.8 Georgia Albany 110 $50,900 1.6 Georgia Athens 210 $42,510 2.5Georgia Atlanta 3,090 $54,240 1 Georgia Augusta 490 $43,550 2 Georgia Brunswick 50 $44,740 1.1 Georgia Columbus 140 $52,110 1.1 Georgia Macon 170 $52,930 1.5 Georgia Rome 70 $50,730 1.8 Georgia Savannah 190 $49,250 1.1 Georgia Valdosta 130 $40,120 2.1Hawaii Honolulu 500 $59,850 0.9 Idaho Boise 120 $51,320 0.4 Illinois Chicago 3,850 $51,370 0.8 Illinois Springfield 110 $52,400 0.9 Indiana Anderson 50 $48,470 1.2 Indiana Bloomington 60 $47,960 0.8 Indiana Fort Wayne 280 $56,380 1.1 Indiana Gary 290 $46,410 0.9 Indiana Indianapolis 1,410 $47,460 1.3 Indiana Kokomo 60 $51,030 1.6 Indiana Lafayette 40 $51,770 0.5 Indiana South Bend 270 $46,480 1.7 Iowa Ames 60 $47,340 1.5 Iowa Cedar Rapids 120 $49,470 0.8 Iowa Davenport 210 $43,710 1 Iowa Des Moines 290 $51,520 0.7 Iowa Dubuque 30 $46,630 0.5 Iowa Sioux City 60 $47,170 0.8 Iowa Waterloo 90 $50,600 0.9 Kansas Lawrence 60 $54,670 1.2 Kansas Topeka 160 $55,830 1.3 Kansas Wichita 310 $51,570 0.8 Kentucky Bowling Green 70 1.1 Kentucky Elizabethtown 50 $47,830 1.1 Kentucky Lexington 570 $49,660 2 Kentucky Louisville 800 $52,020 1.1 Kentucky Owensboro 70 $49,530 1.4 Louisiana Alexandria 150 $48,570 2.3Louisiana Baton Rouge 390 $48,490 0.9 Louisiana Houma 90 $48,560 0.8 Louisiana Lafayette 200 $42,170 1.2 Louisiana Lake Charles 130 $50,710 1.3 Louisiana Monroe 130 $47,510 1.5 Louisiana New Orleans 830 $43,240 1.3 Louisiana Shreveport 540 $44,790 2.6Maine Bangor 70 $51,960 1 Maine Lewiston 70 $48,310 1.3 Maine Portland 380 $50,550 1.6 Maryland Baltimore 2,260 $60,230 1.4 Maryland Bethesda 780 $65,010 1.1 Maryland Cumberland 30 $46,050 0.8 Maryland Salisbury 60 1.1 Massachusetts Boston 5,490 $55,300 2.6Massachusetts Brockton 120 $53,470 1.2 Massachusetts Framingham 170 $53,600 0.9 Massachusetts Leominster 50 $55,530 0.9 Massachusetts Lowell 110 $59,250 0.8 Massachusetts New Bedford 100 $41,380 1.4 Massachusetts Springfield 350 $58,120 1 Massachusetts Worcester 550 $58,760 1.8 Michigan Ann Arbor 440 $51,990 2.2Michigan Detroit 1,180 $55,120 1.3 Michigan Flint 200 $60,990 1.2 Michigan Grand Rapids 280 $53,620 0.6 Michigan Kalamazoo 200 $53,210 1.3 Michigan Lansing 260 $55,040 1.1 Michigan Muskegon 40 $59,400 0.6 Michigan Saginaw 190 $53,440 2.2Michigan Warren 1,540 $54,400 1.1 Minnesota Duluth 150 $58,230 1 Minnesota Minneapolis 1,850 $58,460 0.8 Minnesota St Cloud 150 $57,890 1.3 Mississippi Gulfport 130 $51,270 1 Mississippi Hattiesburg 80 $43,870 1.3 Mississippi Jackson 600 $52,550 2 Missouri Columbia 250 $52,020 2.7Missouri Joplin 140 $46,360 1.6 Missouri Kansas City 1,540 $52,830 1.2 Missouri Springfield 300 1.3 Missouri St Louis 1,930 $53,290 1.1 Montana Billings 50 $54,500 0.5 Montana Great Falls 60 $51,660 1.7 Montana Missoula 50 $48,480 0.9 Nebraska Lincoln 210 1.1 Nebraska Omaha 1,090 $45,380 1.9 Nevada Las Vegas 620 $66,990 0.5 Nevada Reno 210 $65,400 0.8 New Hampshire Nashua 90 $53,420 0.6 New Hampshire Portsmouth 50 $50,180 0.8 New Hampshire Rochester 50 $52,830 0.8 New Jersey Atlantic City 100 $58,030 0.6 New Jersey Camden 420 $59,020 0.6 New Jersey Edison 1,230 $58,260 1 New Jersey Newark 1,060 $61,650 0.8 New Jersey Trenton 210 $60,990 0.8 New Mexico Albuquerque 710 $42,270 1.5 New Mexico Farmington 60 $48,940 1.1 New Mexico Las Cruces 40 $53,240 0.6 New Mexico Santa Fe 40 $53,320 0.6 New York Albany 650 $50,990 1.2 New York Buffalo 330 $49,960 0.5 New York Elmira 60 $48,390 1.6 New York Nassau 1,450 $64,930 0.9 New York New York 6,920 $60,820 1.1 New York Poughkeepsie 210 $62,120 0.7 New York Rochester 960 $48,290 1.6 New York Syracuse 380 $51,460 1 New York Utica 90 $51,730 0.6 North Carolina Asheville 190 $49,100 0.9 North Carolina Burlington 410 $43,490 6.4North Carolina Charlotte 570 $53,550 0.5 North Carolina Durham 1,730 $47,660 5.2North Carolina Fayetteville 160 $49,380 1.1 North Carolina Goldsboro 40 $54,060 1 North Carolina Greensboro 210 $50,360 0.5 North Carolina Greenville 110 $49,550 1.4 North Carolina Hickory 110 $51,460 0.6 North Carolina Raleigh 520 $50,860 0.8 North Carolina Rocky Mount 30 $52,220 0.5 North Carolina Wilmington 130 $52,550 0.8 North Carolina Winston Salem 300 $47,150 1.2 North Dakota Bismarck 100 $46,120 1.6 North Dakota Fargo 240 $47,550 1.8 Ohio Akron 370 $50,750 0.9 Ohio Canton 190 $49,240 0.9 Ohio Cincinnati 1,210 $49,230 0.9 Ohio Cleveland 1,640 $51,300 1.2 Ohio Columbus 1,070 $50,720 0.9 Ohio Dayton 440 $53,760 0.9 Ohio Lima 90 $52,200 1.6 Ohio Toledo 300 $52,680 0.8 Ohio Youngstown 240 $50,640 0.9 Oklahoma Lawton 50 $50,500 1.3 Oklahoma Oklahoma City 690 $49,600 1 Oklahoma Tulsa 540 $42,250 1 Oregon Bend 70 $57,960 0.9 Oregon Corvallis 50 $58,920 1.6 Oregon Medford 100 $60,270 1 Oregon Portland 1,160 $58,370 0.9 Oregon Salem 120 $63,880 0.7 Pennsylvania Allentown 370 $49,540 0.9 Pennsylvania Altoona 120 $47,650 1.8 Pennsylvania Harrisburg 490 $49,140 1.3 Pennsylvania Lancaster 250 $49,770 0.9 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 2,960 $56,040 1.3 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh 2,280 $48,000 1.6 Pennsylvania Reading 60 $38,730 0.3 Pennsylvania Scranton 630 $46,310 2Pennsylvania York 120 $52,770 0.6 Rhode Island Providence 700 $60,700 1 South Carolina Anderson 40 0.6 South Carolina Charleston 540 $51,700 1.5 South Carolina Columbia 630 $49,050 1.5 South Carolina Florence 100 $51,310 1.1 South Carolina Greenville 230 $51,170 0.6 South Carolina Myrtle Beach 30 $42,760 0.2 South Carolina Spartanburg 90 $35,010 0.6 South Dakota Rapid City 120 $52,550 1.7 South Dakota Sioux Falls 370 $48,350 2.3Tennessee Chattanooga 330 $55,080 1.2 Tennessee Johnson City 100 $49,100 1.2 Tennessee Kingsport 170 $46,220 1.3 Tennessee Knoxville 640 $48,560 1.6 Tennessee Memphis 890 $55,950 1.2 Tennessee Morristown 40 $54,070 0.8 Tennessee Nashville 1,000 $58,270 1.1 Texas Abilene 110 $45,720 1.6 Texas Amarillo 140 $47,490 1.2 Texas Austin 690 $43,820 0.7 Texas Beaumont 160 $49,170 0.9 Texas Brownsville 150 $49,200 1 Texas Corpus Christi 200 $47,540 1 Texas Dallas 2,780 $52,300 1.1 Texas El Paso 300 $47,400 0.9 Texas Fort Worth 830 $50,100 0.8 Texas Houston 3,510 $51,950 1.1 Texas Killeen 240 $50,390 1.7 Texas Laredo 70 $43,030 0.8 Texas Longview 40 $48,920 0.4 Texas Lubbock 260 $46,720 1.8 Texas Mcallen 190 $47,600 0.7 Texas Odessa 50 $49,300 0.8 Texas San Angelo 50 $46,580 1.2 Texas San Antonio 1,210 $50,020 1.2 Texas Sherman 60 $44,380 1.5 Texas Texarkana 70 $46,900 1.2 Texas Tyler 210 $48,290 2Utah Ogden 150 $52,610 0.6 Utah Provo 130 $53,040 0.7 Utah Salt Lake City 1,270 $50,380 1.6 Vermont Burlington 190 $55,470 1.5 Virginia Blacksburg 90 $38,600 1.3 Virginia Harrisonburg 70 $54,180 1.2 Virginia Lynchburg 80 $49,810 0.7 Virginia Richmond 820 $49,110 1.1 Virginia Roanoke 410 $49,980 2.2Virginia Virginia Beach 1,000 $50,280 1.1 Washington Bremerton 40 $71,360 0.4 Washington Kennewick 70 $53,260 0.7 Washington Longview 30 $64,190 0.9 Washington Mount Vernon 120 $54,500 2.5Washington Olympia 50 $59,600 0.5 Washington Seattle 1,510 $62,050 0.8 Washington Spokane 330 $58,730 1.3 Washington Tacoma 430 $60,290 1.3 Washington Wenatchee 50 $55,940 1.2 Washington Yakima 60 $57,390 0.7 West Virginia Charleston 260 $47,790 1.5 West Virginia Huntington 150 $51,940 1.1 West Virginia Morgantown 80 $49,480 1.6 West Virginia Parkersburg 90 $44,440 1.2 Wisconsin Appleton 90 $54,370 0.7 Wisconsin Eau Claire 90 $52,540 1 Wisconsin Green Bay 180 $53,930 0.9 Wisconsin Janesville 60 $54,340 0.8 Wisconsin La Crosse 30 $55,560 0.4 Wisconsin Madison 510 $50,020 1.3 Wisconsin Milwaukee 1,390 $53,910 1.3 Wisconsin Oshkosh 100 $51,570 1.1 Wisconsin Wausau 70 $55,180 0.9 Wyoming Cheyenne 70 $53,400 1.5
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