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Medical scribe salary

Open medical scribe jobs post a median of $21.75 an hour, with the middle half paying $19.50–$24.25: about $45,200 a year full time. Measured from 50 jobs at 25 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$21.75
Median posted /hr
$20–$24
Middle half /hr
$45,200
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$19.43
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Medical scribe jobs

What medical scribes 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 50 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $15, the highest $35.37.

Posted on open jobs

$19.50–$24.25/hr

Middle half of 32 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $21.75. 41% of the 122 open medical scribe jobs state an hourly rate.

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Medical scribe pay by employer

What each employer posts for medical scribes, 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
CVS Health$22.75$17–$31.307
Summit Health and CityMD$19.75$17.60–$21.307
Refocus Eye Health$25.50$21–$334
Washington University in St. Louis$18$15.25–$20.773
RWJBarnabas Health$17.75$17.673
Cedars-Sinai$30.25$25–$35.372
Advocate Health$27.25$21.85–$32.802
Sarah Bush Lincoln$25.75$19.61–$31.912
BoulderCentre for Orthopedics$22.25$19–$272
Adventist HealthCare$20.50$18–$22.792
Carilion Clinic$18$15–$21.072
Endeavor Health$24.75$20.29–$29.421
Hackensack Meridian Health$24.25$24.141
Ascension$24$20.50–$27.341
Modena Allergy + Asthma$23.25$21.50–$251
Slocum-Dickson Medical Group$22.50$18–$271
NVISION Centers$22$221
Northwestern Medicine$21.75$17.05–$26.431
Fairview Health Services$21.50$17.68–$25.281
Hennepin Healthcare$21$211
Advanced Pain Care$20$18–$221
Midwest Ear, Nose & Throat Specialists$19.50$19–$201
Total Access Urgent Care$18.50$16–$211
Urgent Care Group$18.50$16–$211
ENT and Allergy Associates$18$181

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 scribe 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
New York$19.75$19.50–$20.50$20.80 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)8
New Jersey$19.75$19.50–$24.25$18.76 (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 medical scribe jobs

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

Every open job: Medical scribe 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 Transcriptionists (31-9094)$13.58 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Transcriptionists, opens in a new tab)$16.42 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Transcriptionists, opens in a new tab)$19.43 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Transcriptionists, opens in a new tab)$23.08 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Transcriptionists, opens in a new tab)$26.90 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Transcriptionists, opens in a new tab)41,550 (source: BLS OEWS, Medical Transcriptionists, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($21.75) is $2.32 above the BLS median ($19.43 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Medical Transcriptionists, 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 scribe salary: common questions

How much does a medical scribe make an hour?

Open medical scribe jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $21.75, with the middle half between $19.50–$24.25 (50 jobs from 25 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 $19.43/hr ($40,410 a year) for medical transcriptionists in May 2025.

How much does a medical scribe make a year?

At the posted median of $21.75 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $45,200, and the middle half to $40,600 to $50,400. 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: 50 of 122 open medical scribe jobs (41%) 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 Transcriptionists (SOC 31-9094), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Medical Transcriptionists by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Medical Transcriptionists (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

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

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