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Cardiac sonographer salary

Open cardiac sonographer jobs post a median of $49.75 an hour, with the middle half paying $44.75–$57: about $103,500 a year full time. Measured from 326 jobs at 124 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$49.75
Median posted /hr
$45–$57
Middle half /hr
$103,500
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$46.44
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Cardiac sonographer jobs · A specialty of sonographer pay

What cardiac sonographers are paid

Each bar counts the open jobs posting an hourly rate in its step of pay (a range at its midpoint). The middle half of employers' rates is in the darker color.

Posted hourly rates of 326 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $15, the highest $101.54.

Posted on open jobs

$44.75–$57/hr

Middle half of 238 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $49.75. 33% of the 992 open cardiac sonographer jobs state an hourly rate. 137 more state an "up to" ceiling, a weekly travel rate, a per-visit fee, or a rate far from the rest (a differential read as pay), left out.

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Cardiac sonographer pay by employer

What each employer posts for cardiac sonographers, the employers with the most jobs stating pay first. An employer with at least 5 such jobs has a page of its own with every range it posts.

EmployerMedian postedPosted rangeJobs stating pay
Beth Israel Lahey Health$57.25$41.53–$80.8513
Providence$56.75$35.70–$93.3711
HealthTrust Workforce Solutions$57.50$45.26–$69.3010
Northwestern Medicine$51.25$40.81–$60.0910
Ascension$48.75$36.94–$63.8810
Advocate Health$44.50$35.50–$57.309
CommonSpirit Health$52.25$31.53–$89.608
Ellis Medicine$45$36.07–$57.898
AdventHealth$45.50$28.97–$64.127
UPMC$41.25$33.77–$56.837
Baptist Health South Florida$39.25$32.12–$54.517
Valley Children's Healthcare$64.50$50.21–$87.906
Kaiser Permanente$63.75$53.58–$94.516
Legacy Health$65.25$51.13–$77.515
Cedars-Sinai$63.75$37.77–$84.085
Mass General Brigham$52.75$40.53–$77.725
Sentara Health$52.50$42.23–$73.515
VCU Health$44.75$35.19–$54.555
Lee Health$42.50$31.90–$48.015
UAB Medicine$38.50$15–$705
Sutter Health$80.75$61.89–$95.304
Fairview Health Services$56$45.80–$66.164
MultiCare Health System$52.50$41.06–$72.414
Inova$52$38.42–$79.074
Tufts Medicine$50.25$40.53–$61.964
Riverside Health$46.25$36.50–$56.384
UMass Memorial Health$45.75$32.76–$58.964
UnitedHealth Group$40.50$28.94–$524
Children's National Hospital$70.75$47.50–$98.883
Northwell Health$65$45–$853
Mount Sinai Health System$59.75$56.91–$62.733
UW Health$54.25$36.99–$65.063
UChicago Medicine$53$45.48–$60.633
Carle Health$50$36.78–$63.263
Luminis Health$47.50$43–$503
RadNet$46$38–$603
Mercy$45$453
Rochester Regional Health$44.75$36–$603
Valley Health (Virginia)$44.25$33.64–$52.953
Atlantic Health$42.75$40.60–$42.633

Median of each employer's own jobs (a range at its midpoint), and the lowest and highest rate it posts. Jobs stating pay link to the employer's open jobs.

Cardiac sonographer pay by state

States where at least 8 open jobs from 3 employers state an hourly rate, highest median first. Each opens the state's own page, with its towns and employers.

StateMedian postedMiddle halfBLS medianJobs
California$64.50$58–$74.25$61.79 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)34
Washington$63.50$60.50–$71.25$58.34 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)15
Massachusetts$52.75$50.25–$56.25$51.67 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)41
Minnesota$52$50.25–$52.75$49.45 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)9
Colorado$49.75$47–$52.25$52.12 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)9
Illinois$48$45.25–$50.25$48.40 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)33
Wisconsin$47.75$44.75–$49.75$49.08 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)15
New York$47.25$44–$57.50$49.96 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)25
Virginia$46.50$44.50–$52.25$45.99 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)26
Maryland$46.25$43.25–$47.50$47.70 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10
Texas$45.50$44–$49.75$44.51 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10
Florida$44.25$41.50–$46$39.88 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)27
New Jersey$42.75$40.50–$46$49.59 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10

Median and middle half of employers' rates in the state. BLS medians are for the occupation's main SOC code in the state (May 2025).

Best-paid open cardiac sonographer jobs

The open jobs posting the highest hourly rates tonight, at most two from one employer.

Every open job: Cardiac sonographer jobs

What BLS measures

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys what people employed in the occupation earn, at every level of experience. A posting advertises what a new hire is offered, so the two measure different things.

Hourly wages, BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, national. Each figure opens its BLS page.
BLS occupation10th pct25th pctMedian75th pct90th pctEmployed
Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (29-2032)$32.60 (source: BLS OEWS, Diagnostic Medical Sonographers, opens in a new tab)$38.67 (source: BLS OEWS, Diagnostic Medical Sonographers, opens in a new tab)$46.44 (source: BLS OEWS, Diagnostic Medical Sonographers, opens in a new tab)$51.41 (source: BLS OEWS, Diagnostic Medical Sonographers, opens in a new tab)$62.20 (source: BLS OEWS, Diagnostic Medical Sonographers, opens in a new tab)90,160 (source: BLS OEWS, Diagnostic Medical Sonographers, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($49.75) is $3.31 above the BLS median ($46.44 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Diagnostic Medical Sonographers, opens in a new tab)). Posted ranges run from a new hire's rate to an experienced one's, and their midpoint is counted here.

Cardiac sonographer salary: common questions

How much does a cardiac sonographer make an hour?

Open cardiac sonographer jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $49.75, with the middle half between $44.75–$57 (326 jobs from 124 employers, each employer's advertised range counted once). Postings advertise a base rate, usually before shift differentials and bonuses. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics measured a median of $46.44/hr ($96,590 a year) for diagnostic medical sonographers in May 2025.

How much does a cardiac sonographer make a year?

At the posted median of $49.75 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $103,500, and the middle half to $93,100 to $118,600. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states.

Which states pay cardiac sonographers the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: California ($64.50), Washington ($63.50) and Massachusetts ($52.75). The lowest: New Jersey ($42.75), Florida ($44.25) and Texas ($45.50). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

Which employers pay cardiac sonographers the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: Legacy Health ($65.25), Valley Children's Healthcare ($64.50) and Kaiser Permanente ($63.75). The employer table lists the 40 employers with the most jobs stating pay.

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay CareJobs.Now's open jobs state, read every night from each employer's own job board: 326 of 992 open cardiac sonographer jobs (33%) state an hourly rate. No pay is estimated for a job that states none, "up to" ceilings and weekly travel rates are left out, and each employer's advertised range counts once in the median, so no single employer sets it.

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Sources and method

Only pay a job states is used: a plain hourly or yearly figure or range in US dollars, read from the job's own posting. A range counts at its midpoint. In the median and the middle half each employer's advertised range counts once, so an employer posting one range in many towns does not set the figure; an employer's own figures count its jobs one by one. "Up to" ceilings, weekly travel rates and rates under a third or over three times the occupation's median are left out. The yearly estimate is the hourly rate times 2,080 hours (40 a week). A job counts under its occupation and every occupation above it, and under every state it is open in. A page exists while at least 8 jobs from 3 employers state a rate. BLS figures are as published.
  1. CareJobs.Now job board: the pay open jobs state, read nightly from each employer's own careers site, published October 24, 2026
  2. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (SOC 29-2032), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Diagnostic Medical Sonographers by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Cardiac sonographer salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/cardiac-sonographer

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