Medical interpreter salary

Open medical interpreter jobs post a median of $29.75 an hour, with the middle half paying $26.50–$39.75: about $61,900 a year full time. Measured from 83 jobs at 43 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

Median posted /hr

Middle half /hr

A year, full time

estimate, 2,080 hours

BLS median /hr

May 2025

The jobs themselves: Medical interpreter jobs

What medical interpreters 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 83 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $16, the highest $81.73.

Posted on open jobs

$26.50–$39.75/hr

Middle half of 62 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $29.75. 45% of the 185 open medical interpreter jobs state an hourly rate.

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Medical interpreter pay by employer

What each employer posts for medical interpreters, 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.

Employer	Median posted	Posted range	Jobs stating pay
University of Rochester Medical Center	$39	$21.78–$70.19	6
Beth Israel Lahey Health	$29.75	$24.93–$81.73	6
Stanford Medicine Children's Health	$46.25	$40.51–$55.15	4
Fairview Health Services	$32	$26.58–$39.36	4
Intermountain Health	$29	$21.70–$49.94	4
Tufts Medicine	$26	$23.04–$28.80	4
UW Medicine	$40.75	$40.86	3
Cedars-Sinai	$39.50	$31–$53	3
Northwestern Medicine	$30.25	$24.27–$54.01	3
MerrimackHealth	$28	$22.38–$33.57	3
Hackensack Meridian Health	$24.25	$23.13–$27.13	3
Northfield Hospital & Clinics	$34.50	$24.66–$45.81	2
Children's National Hospital	$29.50	$22.08–$36.79	2
Mass General Brigham	$28.25	$23.34–$33.37	2
Therapy Spot	$27.50	$20–$35	2
ECU Health	$27	$21.53–$32.68	2
Trinity Health	$25.50	$20.02–$31.03	2
Ibero-American Action League	$23	$23	2
High Country Community Health	$17	$16–$18	2
Kaiser Permanente	$76.75	$73.85–$79.40	1
Boston Children's Hospital	$49	$37.76–$60.41	1
Seattle Children's	$40	$32.07–$48.11	1
UCSF Health	$40	$33.78–$46.08	1
Providence	$39.75	$31.43–$48.08	1
Valley Health (Virginia)	$39.50	$31.54–$47.30	1
OHSU	$36.75	$31.16–$42.12	1
Open Sky Community Services	$33	$33.05	1
Advocate Health	$30.25	$24.10–$36.15	1
MU Health Care	$30	$30	1
ChristianaCare	$29.75	$23.85–$35.78	1
Holyoke Medical Center	$28.75	$23.14–$34.54	1
Avera Health	$27.50	$21.75–$33	1
Kaweah Health	$27	$21.61–$32.42	1
Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago	$26.75	$21–$32.55	1
University Health System - San Antonio	$26.75	$20.30–$33	1
Boston Medical Center	$26.50	$21.27–$31.60	1
Brown University Health	$26.50	$26–$27.17	1
Emory Healthcare	$26.50	$26.60	1
Carle Health	$26.25	$20.08–$32.53	1
Salud Para la Gente	$25.50	$22.73–$28.32	1

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.

Medical interpreter 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.

State	Median posted	Middle half	BLS median	Jobs
California	$43.25	$39.50–$46.75	$34.02 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)	11
New York	$30	$24.50–$39	$40.43 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)	9
Massachusetts	$28.50	$27.75–$32.75	$34.98 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)	19

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).

Medical interpreter jobs that state a yearly salary

Some jobs state a salary for the year instead of an hourly rate. They are measured on their own here, never converted.

7 open jobs from 2 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $63,900, the middle half $62,000 to $65,200, from $53,560 to $79,581 posted.

Best-paid open medical interpreter jobs

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

ASL Interpreter
Kaiser Permanente · Fremont, CA· 3w ago
$73.85–$79.4/hr
Interpreter for American Sign Language (ASL)
Beth Israel Lahey Health · Burlington, MA· 1mo ago
$45.00–$81.73/hr
UR7436H-Interpreter IV, ASL, Per Diem-1
University of Rochester Medical Center · Rochester, NY· 2mo ago
$46.78–$70.19/hr
UR7436H-Interpreter IV, ASL, Per Diem-2
University of Rochester Medical Center · Rochester, NY· 2mo ago
$46.78–$70.19/hr
ASL Interpreter, Relief
Stanford Medicine Children's Health · Palo Alto, CA· 1mo ago
$49.25–$55.15/hr
ASL Interpreter - Per Diem
Boston Children's Hospital · Boston, MA· 1mo ago
$37.76–$60.41/hr
Lead Interpreter/Translator - Spanish
Stanford Medicine Children's Health · Palo Alto, CA· 4mo ago
$44.59–$50.04/hr
American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreter - Interpretation Services, Part-Time, Days
Northwestern Medicine · Chicago, IL· 2w ago
$34.84–$54.01/hr
Lead Clinical Interpreter/Translator - Spanish @ Cedars Marina Hospital
Cedars-Sinai · Los Angeles, CA· 2d ago
$34–$53/hr
ASL Interpreter PRN
Intermountain Health · Denver and Wheat Ridge, CO· 3w ago
$32.34–$49.94/hr
Medical Interpreter, Cantonese & Mandarin
UW Medicine · Seattle, WA· 3w ago
$40.86/hr
Medical Interpreter, Spanish
UW Medicine · Seattle, WA· 3w ago
$40.86/hr

Every open job: Medical interpreter 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 occupation	10th pct	25th pct	Median	75th pct	90th pct	Employed
Interpreters and Translators (27-3091)	$17.82 (source: BLS OEWS, Interpreters and Translators, opens in a new tab)	$22.37 (source: BLS OEWS, Interpreters and Translators, opens in a new tab)	$28.93 (source: BLS OEWS, Interpreters and Translators, opens in a new tab)	$38.86 (source: BLS OEWS, Interpreters and Translators, opens in a new tab)	$49.84 (source: BLS OEWS, Interpreters and Translators, opens in a new tab)	52,060 (source: BLS OEWS, Interpreters and Translators, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($29.75) is $0.82 above the BLS median ($28.93 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Interpreters and Translators, 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.

Medical interpreter salary: common questions

How much does a medical interpreter make an hour?

Open medical interpreter jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $29.75, with the middle half between $26.50–$39.75 (83 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 $28.93/hr ($60,170 a year) for interpreters and translators in May 2025.

How much does a medical interpreter make a year?

At the posted median of $29.75 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $61,900, and the middle half to $55,100 to $82,700. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 7 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $63,900.

Which states pay medical interpreters the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: California ($43.25), New York ($30) and Massachusetts ($28.50). The lowest: Massachusetts ($28.50), New York ($30) and California ($43.25). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

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: 83 of 185 open medical interpreter 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.

CareJobs.Now job board: the pay open jobs state, read nightly from each employer's own careers site, published October 24, 2026
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Interpreters and Translators (SOC 27-3091), published May 15, 2026
BLS OEWS May 2025: Interpreters and Translators by state, published May 15, 2026
BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Interpreters and Translators (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Medical interpreter salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/medical-interpreter

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