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Dietetic technician salary

Open dietetic technician jobs post a median of $26.25 an hour, with the middle half paying $24–$31.25: about $54,600 a year full time. Measured from 25 jobs at 20 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$26.25
Median posted /hr
$24–$31
Middle half /hr
$54,600
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$18.09
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Dietetic technician jobs

What dietetic technicians 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 25 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $15, the highest $45.26.

Posted on open jobs

$24–$31.25/hr

Middle half of 24 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $26.25. 45% of the 56 open dietetic technician jobs state an hourly rate.

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Dietetic technician pay by employer

What each employer posts for dietetic technicians, 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
Loma Linda University Health$29$26.01–$36.263
Children's National Hospital$28.50$19.34–$37.882
Mass General Brigham$24.75$19.42–$26.582
UPMC$24.25$18.99–$30.172
Kaweah Health$37.75$30.17–$45.261
NewYork-Presbyterian$37.25$33.75–$40.551
MultiCare Health System$34.25$25.73–$42.521
Atlantic Health$33.50$25.18–$41.571
MemorialCare$32$321
MarinHealth$31$24.88–$37.331
Cedars-Sinai$28$25–$31.051
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$26$23.20–$28.951
Prime Healthcare$25.50$23–$28.111
Bassett Healthcare Network$25$251
Beth Israel Lahey Health$24.75$21–$28.261
Brown University Health$24$18.13–$29.901
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center$23.75$21.14–$26.471
Rutland Regional Medical Center$20.25$16.50–$24.041
RWJBarnabas Health$20$18.54–$21.311
Boston Children's Hospital$19$15–$22.981

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.

Dietetic technician 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$30$28–$31.75$22.31 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)8

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 dietetic technician jobs

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

Every open job: Dietetic technician 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
Dietetic Technicians (29-2051)$14.29 (source: BLS OEWS, Dietetic Technicians, opens in a new tab)$16.29 (source: BLS OEWS, Dietetic Technicians, opens in a new tab)$18.09 (source: BLS OEWS, Dietetic Technicians, opens in a new tab)$22.00 (source: BLS OEWS, Dietetic Technicians, opens in a new tab)$25.97 (source: BLS OEWS, Dietetic Technicians, opens in a new tab)31,560 (source: BLS OEWS, Dietetic Technicians, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($26.25) is $8.16 above the BLS median ($18.09 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Dietetic 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.

Dietetic technician salary: common questions

How much does a dietetic technician make an hour?

Open dietetic technician jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $26.25, with the middle half between $24–$31.25 (25 jobs from 20 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 $18.09/hr ($37,640 a year) for dietetic technicians in May 2025.

How much does a dietetic technician make a year?

At the posted median of $26.25 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $54,600, and the middle half to $49,900 to $65,000. 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: 25 of 56 open dietetic technician jobs (45%) 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: Dietetic Technicians (SOC 29-2051), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Dietetic Technicians by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Dietetic Technicians, published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Dietetic technician salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/dietetic-technician

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