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What perfusionists make
Median, from Salary.com
$160,532
Bottom tenth
$135,031
Top tenth
$179,531
These come from Salary.com, a pay data company, rather than from the federal wage survey, which is unusual for this site and worth explaining. Perfusion is too small a field to get its own line in the government survey, so it is swept into a catch-all group called Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other, alongside jobs that need far less training. That group's 2025 median is $50,290, which is not what perfusionists earn, so using it here would be misleading. Salary.com puts the median for clinical perfusionists at $160,532 as of October 1, 2026, with the bottom tenth at $135,031 and the top tenth at $179,531.