According to the Society of Nuclear Medicine, “The future looks bright for nuclear medicine technologists as findings show that technologists enjoy their jobs, find their salaries near the top of the scale for professions with similar educational requirements, are well educated, and remain poised for continuing growth and change.”
You know what that means don’t you? It means the field of nuclear medicine is not only advancing in technology, but in pay as well. It also means that office politics—often associated with medicine—isn’t making the job unbearable, stringent, and difficult, but rather adds excitement to the job.
Is There Room For More NMTs?
In the United States alone there were 18,000 nuclear medicine technologist jobs in 2004 with 7 out of 10 of those jobs held in hospitals and the remaining 3 out of 10 jobs held in clinics and laboratories, according to the United States Department of Labor. But what’s impressive isn’t the fact that technology has opened up so many well-paying jobs, but that as medical advances continue to grow in the field of nuclear medicine, so does the need for more nuclear medicine technologists.
The Pay
In 2006, Salary.com did a study that discovered the median pay scale for a nuclear medicine technologist, in the United States, is $60,039 per year.
With the following median pay scales for Floridians living in:
Daytona Beach $56,883
Fort Lauderdale $62,499
Orlando $59,772
MiamiM $61,470
To learn more about what nuclear medicine technologists are making, check out the following websites.
NMT Job Satisfaction
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