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Monitor technician salary

Open monitor technician jobs post a median of $23 an hour, with the middle half paying $20.75–$25: about $47,800 a year full time. Measured from 173 jobs at 70 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$23
Median posted /hr
$21–$25
Middle half /hr
$47,800
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$35.73
BLS median /hr
May 2025

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What monitor 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 173 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $15, the highest $45.

Posted on open jobs

$20.75–$25/hr

Middle half of 117 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $23. 40% of the 432 open monitor technician jobs state an hourly rate.

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Monitor technician pay by employer

What each employer posts for monitor 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
Select Medical$22$16.30–$2818
Hackensack Meridian Health$21.25$20.79–$21.1512
Baptist Health South Florida$18.25$16–$20.957
Providence$27.50$25–$35.126
Emanate Health$26.50$23–$34.506
UChicago Medicine$23.75$20.16–$28.226
AdventHealth$21.75$15.73–$31.326
Fairview Health Services$27.75$22.07–$32.425
CommonSpirit Health$25$15–$34.705
Sentara Health$24$19.55–$28.695
Northwestern Medicine$22$18.33–$25.665
HealthTrust Workforce Solutions$37.25$31–$40.154
Atlantic Health$26.25$20.97–$34.644
UPMC$23.50$18.39–$29.154
Ascension$19.50$16.48–$25.774
Overlake Medical Center$35$27.98–$41.973
Kaiser Permanente$29.25$27.72–$32.093
Advocate Health$26$20.80–$31.203
AtlantiCare$24.50$20.04–$29.073
Adventist HealthCare$22$19.21–$25.653
VCU Health$20.75$17.25–$24.123
Northwell Health$45$452
Prime Healthcare$25$22–$29.322
Holyoke Medical Center$22$17.76–$26.522
Trinity Health$21.75$18.11–$25.352
Sarah Bush Lincoln$21.50$16.94–$26.262
ScionHealth$21.50$15.92–$23.732
Moffitt Cancer Center$20$16.66–$23.432
Valley Health (Virginia)$20$17.86–$22.332
OSF HealthCare$19.75$18.27–$21.212
Sharp HealthCare$29.50$26.32–$32.891
Palomar Health$27.75$23–$32.541
St. Charles Health System$27$23.74–$30.391
Community Memorial Hospital - Ventura$26.50$24.50–$28.601
Kaweah Health$26$20.78–$31.171
Loma Linda University Health$26$25–$26.911
Beth Israel Lahey Health$25.75$22–$29.611
Catholic Health (Long Island)$25.25$25.231
Carle Health$24.75$18.89–$30.601
Endeavor Health$24.75$20.29–$29.421

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.

Monitor 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$26.25$23.75–$28$37.58 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)27
Illinois$22.50$21.75–$24.50$29.75 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)23
Maryland$22.50$22–$22.75$41.56 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)9
New Jersey$22.25$20.50–$24.50$39.76 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)22
Florida$20.50$19.50–$21.75$37.09 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)18

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).

Night shift monitor technician pay

Where one employer posts both night and other monitor technician jobs in the same state (15 such employers and states), the night jobs post the same base rate as the rest (the median gap is $0): most employers state their night differential apart from the base pay, so check the posting for it.

Employer, stateNight jobs, medianOther jobs, median
Hackensack Meridian Health, NJ$21.25 (6)$21.25 (6)
Select Medical, OH$23 (2)$22 (7)
Emanate Health, CA$26.50 (2)$26.50 (4)
Providence, CA$28.75 (4)$27.50 (2)
UChicago Medicine, IL$22.50 (1)$24.75 (5)
Northwestern Medicine, IL$22 (1)$22 (4)
Sentara Health, VA$24 (1)$24 (4)
AdventHealth, FL$21.25 (2)$21.25 (2)

A job counts as a night job when its title names nights ("Nights", "NOC", "7p-7a"). Jobs in brackets.

Best-paid open monitor technician jobs

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

Every open job: Monitor 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
Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians (29-2031)$18.75 (source: BLS OEWS, Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)$23.02 (source: BLS OEWS, Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)$35.73 (source: BLS OEWS, Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)$47.17 (source: BLS OEWS, Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)$58.34 (source: BLS OEWS, Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)62,960 (source: BLS OEWS, Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($23) is $12.73 below the BLS median ($35.73 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Cardiovascular 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.

Monitor technician salary: common questions

How much does a monitor technician make an hour?

Open monitor technician jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $23, with the middle half between $20.75–$25 (173 jobs from 70 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 $35.73/hr ($74,310 a year) for cardiovascular technologists and technicians in May 2025.

How much does a monitor technician make a year?

At the posted median of $23 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $47,800, and the middle half to $43,200 to $52,000. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states.

Which states pay monitor technicians the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: California ($26.25), Illinois ($22.50) and Maryland ($22.50). The lowest: Florida ($20.50), New Jersey ($22.25) and Maryland ($22.50). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

Which employers pay monitor technicians the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: Fairview Health Services ($27.75), Providence ($27.50) and Emanate Health ($26.50). The employer table lists the 40 employers with the most jobs stating pay.

Do night shift monitor technicians earn more?

Not in the base rate employers post: where one employer posts both night and other monitor technician jobs in the same state (15 such employers and states), the median gap is $0. Most state their night differential separately in the posting.

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: 173 of 432 open monitor technician jobs (40%) 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: Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians (SOC 29-2031), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

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

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