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What the job pays
Published median
$62,930
Starting technician
$38,910
Top of the published range
$100,990
Read this one carefully. The published median is $62,930 a year with a bottom tenth near $38,910, but the wage survey reports laboratory technologists and technicians together. Technicians hold the two year degree and sit in the lower half of that range, so plan on the $40,000s to $50,000s to start.