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Cytotechnologist salary

Open cytotechnologist jobs post a median of $47.25 an hour, with the middle half paying $42.50–$55.50: about $98,300 a year full time. Measured from 37 jobs at 34 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$47.25
Median posted /hr
$43–$56
Middle half /hr
$98,300
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$30.26
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Cytotechnologist jobs

What cytotechnologists 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 37 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $26.37, the highest $96.96.

Posted on open jobs

$42.50–$55.50/hr

Middle half of 37 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $47.25. 39% of the 94 open cytotechnologist jobs state an hourly rate. 3 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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Cytotechnologist pay by employer

What each employer posts for cytotechnologists, 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
Kaiser Permanente$82$77.53–$87.592
UAB Medicine$47.25$33.85–$552
VCU Health$44.25$33.01–$56.292
Sutter Health$83$69.26–$96.961
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center$73$731
Richmond University Medical Center$67.50$64.22–$70.641
UW Medicine$67.25$67.191
MultiCare Health System$58$44.79–$71.011
Quest Diagnostics$56$52.65–$59.351
City of Hope California$55.75$48.44–$62.971
Confluence Health$55.50$43.36–$67.841
Brown University Health$52.50$39.56–$65.281
ChristianaCare$50.75$38.98–$62.381
Sonic Healthcare USA$50.50$48.09–$52.901
Northwestern Medicine$50$43.46–$56.501
HealthTrust Workforce Solutions$49.25$45.26–$53.291
CommonSpirit Health$48.50$36.59–$60.381
BJC HealthCare$48.25$36.66–$59.691
Fairview Health Services$47.25$39.28–$55.451
Endeavor Health$44.75$35.16–$54.501
Jefferson Health$44.75$36.96–$52.671
Mayo Clinic$44.25$35.45–$53.151
University of Rochester Medical Center$44.25$38.38–$49.891
Rochester Regional Health$44$40–$481
Mass General Brigham$43$39.53–$46.431
OSF HealthCare$42.50$39.13–$46.031
Riverside Health$40.75$34.40–$47.301
Sanford Health$40.25$31–$49.501
GBMC HealthCare$39.75$30.06–$49.291
Adventist HealthCare$37.50$30.53–$44.271
Gundersen Health System$37.50$37.401
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center$32$31.991
Appalachian Regional Healthcare System$29$28.961
Albany Med Health System$26.25$26.371

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.

Best-paid open cytotechnologist jobs

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

Every open job: Cytotechnologist 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
Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians (29-2010)$18.71 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)$22.91 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)$30.26 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)$39.16 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)$48.55 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)332,940 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($47.25) is $16.99 above the BLS median ($30.26 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, 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.

Cytotechnologist salary: common questions

How much does a cytotechnologist make an hour?

Open cytotechnologist jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $47.25, with the middle half between $42.50–$55.50 (37 jobs from 34 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 $30.26/hr ($62,930 a year) for clinical laboratory technologists and technicians in May 2025.

How much does a cytotechnologist make a year?

At the posted median of $47.25 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $98,300, and the middle half to $88,400 to $115,400. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states.

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: 37 of 94 open cytotechnologist jobs (39%) 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: Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians (SOC 29-2010), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Cytotechnologist salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/cytotechnologist

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