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What sonographers make

Median

$87,000

Lower end

$73,000

Upper end

$106,000

Job Bank's national figures for medical sonographers: $34.90 an hour at the low end, $42 at the median and $51 at the high end. That is about $73,000, $87,000 and $106,000 a year at 40 hours a week. Hospital jobs are unionized and paid on a grid.