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Health information technician salary

Open health information technician jobs post a median of $22 an hour, with the middle half paying $20.50–$24: about $45,800 a year full time. Measured from 52 jobs at 43 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$22
Median posted /hr
$21–$24
Middle half /hr
$45,800
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$24.59
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Health information technician jobs

What health information 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 52 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $15.67, the highest $45.50.

Posted on open jobs

$20.50–$24/hr

Middle half of 50 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $22. 32% of the 165 open health information technician jobs state an hourly rate.

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Health information technician pay by employer

What each employer posts for health information 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
CommonSpirit Health$20.50$15.67–$30.944
El Camino Health$36.25$27.52–$45.502
Providence$23.50$17.26–$29.082
Vista Community Clinic$22.50$22–$232
GBMC HealthCare$21.75$17.35–$26.362
Avera Health$20.25$17.50–$23.252
Monument Health$18.75$17.27–$20.452
Unity Care NW$27.25$24.98–$29.351
WhidbeyHealth$27.25$19.89–$34.621
Genesis HealthCare$26.25$26.271
Kaweah Health$25.50$20.38–$30.571
AltaMed Health Services$25$251
Sturdy Health$25$19.85–$30.051
Pullman Regional Hospital$24.75$19.42–$30.221
Central Valley Specialty Hospital$24.50$23–$261
St. Charles Health System$24.50$21.30–$27.691
National Jewish Health$24$20.69–$27.361
MAHEC$23.75$23.651
Denver Health$23.50$21–$25.951
Emerson Hospital$23.50$22–$251
Froedtert South$23.50$19–$281
Loretto Management$23.25$22.05–$24.371
UVA Health$23.25$17.73–$28.801
Elderwood$23$20.50–$25.561
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center$22.75$22.791
CommuniCare Health Services$22.50$20–$251
Covenant Living$22.25$19.13–$25.431
Capital Health$21.75$19.32–$24.131
BrightSpring Health Services$21.50$18–$251
New York Oncology Hematology$21.50$19–$241
Ortonville Area Health Services$21.50$17.27–$25.901
Rush-Copley Medical Center$21.50$17.11–$25.671
Adventist HealthCare$21$18.40–$23.481
North Star Health$21$18–$241
Minnesota Urology, P.A.$20.75$18.40–$231
ScionHealth$20.50$18.04–$22.881
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center$20.25$17.50–$22.861
Anthony L. Jordan Health$19.50$18–$20.801
University Health System - San Antonio$19.50$18–$20.751
Trinity Health$19.25$16.70–$21.601

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 health information technician jobs

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

Every open job: Health information 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
Medical Records Specialists (29-2072)$17.79 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Records Specialists, opens in a new tab)$20.91 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Records Specialists, opens in a new tab)$24.59 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Records Specialists, opens in a new tab)$31.17 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Records Specialists, opens in a new tab)$39.01 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Records Specialists, opens in a new tab)194,720 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Records Specialists, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($22) is $2.59 below the BLS median ($24.59 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Medical Records Specialists, 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.

Health information technician salary: common questions

How much does a health information technician make an hour?

Open health information technician jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $22, with the middle half between $20.50–$24 (52 jobs from 43 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 $24.59/hr ($51,140 a year) for medical records specialists in May 2025.

How much does a health information technician make a year?

At the posted median of $22 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $45,800, and the middle half to $42,600 to $49,900. 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: 52 of 165 open health information technician jobs (32%) 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: Medical Records Specialists (SOC 29-2072), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Medical Records Specialists by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Medical Records Specialists (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

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

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