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Diagnostic medical sonographers

Also called Sonographer, Ultrasound tech, Ultrasound technologist, OB sonographer, OB/GYN sonographer

In brief

In May 2025, BLS counted 90,160 US diagnostic medical sonographers, with median pay of $96,590 a year. Of the BLS counts since 2003, the May 2025 count is the highest. The earliest figure here is an estimate of 10,000 from 1975, not measured the same way as today's count. The last full technology era for diagnostic medical sonographers: Handheld POCUS devices, 2012 to 2023. POCUS expansion created new volume of ultrasound exams performed in the US while beginning a slow scope-boundary shift at the entry-level sonographer task set.

What the sources say

Official outlook

BLS projects employment to grow 13.9% from 2025 to 2035.

BLS Employment Projections 2025-35

AI exposure studies

Data as of BLS OEWS May 2025; BLS Employment Projections 2025-35. BLS publishes these counts as yearly survey snapshots and cautions against reading them as a precise trend. In May 2021 BLS changed how it estimates these counts (a model-based method using three years of survey data) and moved fully to the 2018 occupation codes, so part of a change across 2021 can come from the method rather than the work.

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@misc{futurehistory_29_2032, author = {{Future History}}, title = {Diagnostic medical sonographers: jobs and pay since 1975}, year = {2026}, month = oct, howpublished = {\url{https://futurehistory.earth/timeline/29-2032}}, note = {Last updated 2026-10-11. Data as of BLS OEWS May 2025; BLS Employment Projections 2025-35}, }

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Known then as Ultrasound Technical Specialist / Ultrasonographer (early professionalization era)
Known then as Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer (RDMS credential era)
Known then as Diagnostic Medical Sonographer / Ultrasound Technologist (expansion era)
Known then as Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (BLS SOC 29-2032)
Known today as Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (BLS SOC 29-2032)
Projected to still be called Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (BLS SOC 29-2032)
Data from the May 2025 survey
US Employment
90K
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$96,590

≈ $94,114 in 2024 prices (derived by us, CPI-adjusted)

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Beat · 1958

June 7, 1958: Ian Donald, John MacVicar, and Tom Brown publish "Investigation of Abdominal Masses by Pulsed Ultrasound" in The Lancet -- the founding paper of clinical diagnostic ultrasound. Donald, Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow, had borrowed an industrial metal-flaw detector from Babcock and Wilcox and repurposed it to scan human abdomens. The paper demonstrated that pulsed B-mode ultrasound could distinguish ovarian cysts from fibroids, identify polyhydramnios, and image the fetal skull -- all without radiation. The commercial version, the Diasonograph, entered production in 1963 and was first sold to Sweden. At this stage there are no sonographers: the machines are operated by physician-researchers.

Beat · 1969

Six individuals form the American Society of Ultrasound Technical Specialists -- later renamed the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (SDMS) -- the founding professional organization for ultrasound operators as a distinct occupation, not a physician subspecialty. This act of organizing is the birth certificate of the sonographer profession. The timing tracks the arrival of real-time commercial scanners in US hospitals: once scanning became a continuous-operation skill rather than a physician research ritual, a specialized occupation was needed.

Beat · 1973

The US Department of Education formally recognizes diagnostic medical sonography as a distinct healthcare occupation, a milestone cited in professional history sources as establishing the credential and educational legitimacy the field needed. The recognition enabled community college programs to seek accreditation and students to qualify for vocational education funding for sonography coursework. Foothill College in California, one of the earliest programs, has been operating since 1984.

Beat · 1975

June 1975, Winston-Salem, North Carolina: ARDMS -- the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography -- administers its first credentialing examination to 200 candidates. ARDMS is an independent, non-profit organization and has been the standard credentialing body for the profession ever since. The founding cohort of 200 candidates became the nucleus of the credentialed profession. By 1987, ARDMS had issued credentials to 35,000 practitioners; by 2025, more than 113,000 across 68 countries, serving approximately 1.2 million patients per day.

Beat · 1982

Color Doppler ultrasound enters clinical practice -- the Aloka SSD-880 is among the first commercial color flow Doppler systems, circa 1982. Color Doppler allows blood velocity to be displayed as a color overlay on anatomical B-mode images in real time. The technology expands the sonographer's clinical vocabulary significantly: vascular duplex sonography (carotid, lower-extremity arterial and venous, renal artery) becomes a defined subspecialty with its own ARDMS credential track (the Registered Vascular Technologist, RVT) by the mid-1980s. Cardiac color Doppler transforms the echocardiographer's role, enabling real-time visualization of valvular regurgitation, septal defects, and ventricular function parameters that were previously only assessable by invasive hemodynamic catheterization.

Beat · 1998

Fujifilm SonoSite (then SonoSite Inc.) commercializes the first practical portable ultrasound system -- the SonoSite 180 -- and begins the long expansion of ultrasound beyond the fixed imaging suite into bedside, emergency, and field settings. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is not yet a recognized clinical practice at most hospitals in 1998, but the technology that will eventually create the sonographer-versus-POCUS debate has arrived. SonoSite's founding was supported by the US Army, which funded initial development for combat medic use.

Beat · 2014

ARDMS reaches 90,000 credentialed registrants. In 2014, the ARDMS milestone data shows the registry at 90,000 practitioners -- a nine-fold increase from the 35,000 milestone in 1987. This growth reflects both the expanding deployment of diagnostic ultrasound as a first-line modality and the rising credentialing standards at clinical employers, who increasingly require ARDMS certification as a condition of employment or as a criterion for compensation advancement. The BLS OOH 2014-2024 employment projection cycle had projected +26% growth for the occupation, a figure that proved directionally accurate.

Beat · 2020

GE HealthCare receives FDA clearance for Caption AI -- the first AI-guided cardiac ultrasound acquisition system approved for clinical use. Caption AI, originally developed by Caption Health (acquired by GE in 2023), provides real-time probe positioning quality scores and coaching cues to guide non-expert operators toward standard echocardiographic views. The FDA clearance marks the formal entry of AI into the diagnostic ultrasound workflow at the acquisition level -- not just post-processing -- and signals the beginning of the AI tool era for the occupation. Simultaneously, the COVID-19 pandemic reshapes POCUS utilization in hospital and ICU settings, expanding bedside ultrasound for vascular access, lung assessment, and cardiac screening by non-sonographer clinicians.

Beat · 2024

ARDMS surpasses 113,000 credentialed registrants across 68 countries. The occupation is now the most consistently in-demand allied health imaging specialty in US hospital workforce data. BLS projects +14% employment growth from 2024 to 2034, among the fastest growth rates in the healthcare sector. At the same time, the ARDMS/SDMS Joint Statement on AI in Sonography (2024) formally affirms that real-time probe operation, patient assessment, and image adequacy judgment cannot be delegated to AI systems under current professional standards -- the professional bodies have drawn the line of human accountability at the transducer.

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Cited forecasts · present → 2035

Will AI replace diagnostic medical sonographers? What the research says

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What published forecasts say
Forecast change in the number of people doing this work, as published by each named source. Bars share one scale on every role, centred on zero and reaching the end at ±30%. Grey marks a small change, 3% or less either way.
BLS Employment Projections 2025-35
→ 2035
+13.9%
BLS National Employment Matrix, 2025-35 cycle, line for SOC 29-2032 (Diagnostic medical sonographers): 92.2 thousand jobs in 2025, projected 105.1 thousand in 2035, a change of +12.9 thousand (+13.9%). Matrix employment counts all jobs in the occupation, including self-employed workers (1.1% of this occupation in 2025). The average for all occupations in this cycle is +3.5%.
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How exposed is this work to AI (research measures)
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Eloundou et al. (2023), "GPTs are GPTs"
2023 study · Share of tasks exposed to LLMs (β, human-rated)
28.9%
of tasks
What this measures

Published occupation-level exposure from the paper's occ_level.csv for O*NET-SOC 29-2032.00 Diagnostic Medical Sonographers. Shown: human-rated β = 0.289, the share of the occupation's tasks an LLM could do in at least half the time at equal quality, counting tasks that need LLM-powered software at half weight (β = E1 + 0.5 × E2). Other published measures for this occupation: human-rated α (LLM alone) 0.132 and γ (all LLM-assisted) 0.447; GPT-4-rated β 0.303. This measures how much of the work an LLM could touch, not how many jobs disappear.

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Today, in this role

What's changing day to day for diagnostic medical sonographers

Three parts of your work where AI is already doing real lifting, and what stays yours.

AI is sitting alongside you herePerform echocardiographic studies with AI-assisted measurement and report pre-fill, acquiring standard 2D, M-mode, color Doppler, and spectral Doppler cardiac views per ASE guidelines, then submitting standard clips and Doppler traces to AI measurement platforms (Ultromics EchoGo, Us2.ai, Mindray Auto EF) that automatically calculate LVEF, LV volumes, LV mass, GLS, and diastolic function parameters

Perform echocardiographic studies with AI-assisted measurement and report pre-fill, acquiring standard 2D, M-mode, color Doppler, and spectral Doppler cardiac views per ASE guidelines, then submitting standard clips and Doppler traces to AI measurement platforms (Ultromics EchoGo, Us2.ai, Mindray Auto EF) that automatically calculate LVEF, LV volumes, LV mass, GLS, and diastolic function parameters; reviewing and accepting or correcting AI-generated measurements before cardiologist sign-off.[7],[11],[8]

Where your edge is

AI echo measurement tools (Ultromics EchoGo, Us2.ai) are FDA-cleared and deployed at echo labs to automate the LVEF, GLS, and diastolic measurement workflow: the most time-consuming per-study task for cardiac sonographers on standard studies. Your defensibility shifts to two areas: (1) acquisition quality (AI measurement accuracy is directly dependent on the quality of clips and Doppler gate placement the sonographer acquires; poor image quality degrades AI output more than human measurement, making your acquisition skill more important, not less; [2] complex echo studies) stress echo, contrast echo, transesophageal echo (TEE), and fetal echo have minimal AI measurement coverage and require advanced RDCS-level expertise. Pursue RDCS (Echocardiography) credential and ASE-advanced echo certification to anchor your career in high-complexity echo protocols where AI has no coverage.

AI is sitting alongside you herePerform obstetric ultrasound with AI-assisted fetal anatomy labeling and biometry, scanning fetal anatomy planes per AIUM OB protocols, with AI tools (GE Voluson SonoLyst, Samsung HERA W10 BiometryAssist) auto-labeling standard planes (BPD, HC, AC, FL) and placing preliminary calipers, then reviewing and confirming or correcting AI-generated measurements before finalizing the biometry report

Perform obstetric ultrasound with AI-assisted fetal anatomy labeling and biometry, scanning fetal anatomy planes per AIUM OB protocols, with AI tools (GE Voluson SonoLyst, Samsung HERA W10 BiometryAssist) auto-labeling standard planes (BPD, HC, AC, FL) and placing preliminary calipers, then reviewing and confirming or correcting AI-generated measurements before finalizing the biometry report; extending the scan to evaluate anomalies flagged by AI anatomy review platforms (Sonio) when indicated.[6],[12],[13]

Where your edge is

AI fetal biometry tools (GE Voluson SonoLyst, Samsung BiometryAssist) are actively deployed and reduce routine caliper-placement time by 40-60% per AIUM 2024 and vendor validation data: this is the most directly impactful AI automation in routine OB sonography today. Your value shifts from manual caliper placement to quality oversight: reviewing AI-placed calipers for accuracy (especially with fetal movement, shadowing, or suboptimal anatomy planes), extending the scan to evaluate flagged anatomy concerns, and managing the technically difficult OB cases (posterior placenta, oligohydramnios, fetal malpresentation) where AI biometry accuracy degrades. Develop proficiency with AI anatomy review tools (Sonio): sonographers who can triage AI-flagged anomalies intelligently and extend scans appropriately add the most diagnostic value over automated measurement alone.

AI is sitting alongside you hereComplete ultrasound worksheet documentation and preliminary reports using AI-assisted dictation, entering technical findings, measurements, and scan-limitation notes into the ultrasound worksheet within the RIS/PACS (Epic, Cerner, McKesson), using voice dictation (Dragon Medical One) or AI-assisted documentation tools to complete technical impression notes hands-free during or immediately after the scan, and verifying that AI-populated measurement fields accurately reflect the actual clinical findings before releasing the study.

Complete ultrasound worksheet documentation and preliminary reports using AI-assisted dictation, entering technical findings, measurements, and scan-limitation notes into the ultrasound worksheet within the RIS/PACS (Epic, Cerner, McKesson), using voice dictation (Dragon Medical One) or AI-assisted documentation tools to complete technical impression notes hands-free during or immediately after the scan, and verifying that AI-populated measurement fields accurately reflect the actual clinical findings before releasing the study.[14],[5]

Where your edge is

AI-assisted documentation (Dragon Medical One voice dictation, ambient AI clinical documentation) is actively reducing the time sonographers spend on post-scan worksheet and report note completion. This is genuinely positive augmentation: it frees scan time for more studies or for more thorough real-time examination. The human task that remains non-automatable is verification: AI-populated measurement fields from tools like EchoGo or Voluson SonoLyst must be reviewed before releasing the study, because AI measurement errors on non-standard anatomy or poor-quality images flow directly into the permanent record and can mislead the reading physician. Develop a systematic pre-release verification habit: check AI-populated measurements against your direct observation, especially for cases where image quality was suboptimal.

Where diagnostic medical sonographers go next

Natural next steps for someone with your foundation: not exits, evolutions.

What each move takes

A direction you could grow

Medical and Health Services Managers

Senior diagnostic medical sonographers with charge sonographer, ultrasound supervisor, or lead tech experience are well-positioned for ultrasound department supervisor, imaging services director, and medical imaging administrator roles, tracked under Medical and Health Services Managers (+29% projected growth 2024-2034, the fastest-growing large management occupation). As ultrasound departments deploy AI tools (GE Voluson SonoLyst, Ultromics EchoGo, Koios DS) at scale, health systems need imaging managers who understand both the clinical ultrasound workflow and the vendor evaluation, AI tool governance, and staff training requirements for responsible AI adoption. Sonographers transitioning to management also benefit from the highest projected growth rate of any large management occupation and a significant compensation step-up from the sonographer median of $84,470. Credential investment: ARRT's Sonography Leadership Certificate, Certified Ultrasound Technologist in Management (if available through SDMS), or a formal MHA (Master of Health Administration) for larger director roles.

What you'd add
  • · Ultrasound supervisor / charge tech experience: staff scheduling, QA program oversight, new sonographer precepting, and AI tool deployment coordination as a stepping stone to management credibility
  • · Healthcare management credentials: MHA (Master of Health Administration) or AHRA Certified Radiology Administrator (CRA) examination, the standard credential for imaging department management, applicable to ultrasound-led imaging programs
  • · Healthcare finance for imaging departments: CPT coding for ultrasound examinations (93000s for echo, 76000s for abdominal/OB/vascular), RVU productivity benchmarking, outpatient imaging budget management, AI tool ROI analysis
  • · AI vendor management: evaluating ultrasound AI tools (GE Voluson SonoLyst, Ultromics EchoGo, Koios DS, Sonio), negotiating deployment agreements, managing AI algorithm performance post-deployment, AIUM QA compliance for AI-integrated ultrasound programs
  • · Workforce management in ultrasound: ARDMS credential verification compliance, multi-subspecialty sonographer staffing models (OB, cardiac, vascular, breast), per-diem float management, and new POCUS program integration within the imaging department
What it takesSome new skills to pick up
Tools of the era

How has the work of diagnostic medical sonographers changed since 1958?

The tools that defined the work, one line per era. Select an era to see how it reshaped the work.

  • Static compound B-mode scanner (Diasonograph era)

    Ian Donald, Tom Brown, and John MacVicar published their landmark Lancet paper on June 7, 1958 -- "Investigation of Abdominal Masses by Pulsed Ultrasound" -- describing B-mode ultrasound examination of about a hundred patients. The commercial Diasonograph they designed was sold starting in 1963. These early machines required the patient to be immersed in a water bath or scanned with a slowly articulated arm; the operator moved the transducer across the body over many minutes to build up a compound static image. The machine operator in this era was typically a physician or physicist: the skill required was part technical, part anatomical interpretation, and it was inseparable from academic research. No distinct "sonographer" occupation existed yet. The era ended as real-time scanners arrived and made the static compound approach obsolete.

    Effect on the work

    Employment of dedicated ultrasound operators was minimal in this era -- perhaps a few hundred research-site technicians in the US. Ultrasound scanning was a physician procedure.

  • Real-time B-mode linear array and mechanical sector scanners (Siemens Vidoson, ATL, Diasonics)

    The Siemens Vidoson -- developed by Walter Krause and Richard Soldner in Germany and commercially available from 1965 -- produced several frames per second from three rotating transducers and is recognized as the first real-time ultrasound scanner. Organon Teknika in the Netherlands released the first commercial linear-array scanner (Multiscan) around 1972-73. ATL (Advanced Technology Laboratories) and Diasonics entered the US market in the mid-1970s and by 1977 together held a large share of the US diagnostic ultrasound market. Real-time imaging transformed what the operator had to do: instead of slowly building a compound image, the operator guided a continuously updating moving picture through the body, making instantaneous probe-position judgments and recognizing anatomy as it appeared. This was no longer a physician procedure -- it was too time-consuming for doctors to operate themselves, and the real-time skill was learnable by a trained technician. The professionalization of the occupation, SDMS (1969) and ARDMS (1975), tracked this technological transition directly. Static scanners remained in use at some centers until roughly 1985-86 before real-time machines fully displaced them.

    Effect on the work

    This technology era created the distinct occupation. Employment grew between the early 1970s and the late 1970s as hospitals deployed ultrasound in obstetrics, abdominal imaging, and cardiology. ARDMS credentialed hundreds of practitioners in 1975 and reached 35,000 by 1987.

  • Color Doppler ultrasound (clinical introduction 1982-1986)

    Pulsed Doppler spectral analysis had been in research use since the late 1970s for fetal heart rate and blood flow assessment. Color flow Doppler -- mapping blood velocity as a color overlay on a B-mode image -- entered clinical practice in the early-to-mid 1980s, with the Aloka SSD-880 widely cited as one of the first commercially available color Doppler systems (circa 1982). By the late 1980s, color Doppler was standard in cardiac echo, obstetric, and vascular imaging. For the sonographer, color Doppler added a new technical vocabulary: spectral waveform interpretation, Doppler angle correction, velocity measurements. Vascular duplex sonography -- combining B-mode anatomy with Doppler blood-flow analysis for carotid, lower-extremity, and visceral vessels -- became a defined subspecialty requiring additional training and credentialing (the RVT credential through ARDMS). The scope of the occupation expanded materially, and the wage premium for Doppler-competent sonographers reflected that expansion.

  • Portable and laptop ultrasound (SonoSite 1998, pocket devices 2000s)

    Fujifilm SonoSite (originally SonoSite Inc.) commercialized the first practical portable ultrasound system in 1998 -- the SonoSite 180 -- designed for point-of-care and field use rather than the radiology suite. Portable ultrasound created a new use case: point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) performed by emergency physicians, intensivists, and internists for rapid diagnostic questions (cardiac tamponade, pneumothorax, abdominal free fluid in trauma). For sonographers, portable ultrasound expanded the physical locations where scanning happened -- intensive care units, emergency departments, cardiac catheterization labs -- while also beginning the longer-term competitive pressure that POCUS would eventually create at entry-level sonographer tasks.

    Effect on the work

    Portable ultrasound expanded the total volume of ultrasound examinations performed in the US without directly displacing sonographers through the early 2010s; the primary effect was new sites of care and a broader market for ultrasound equipment.

  • Handheld POCUS devices (Butterfly Network iQ 2018, Clarius, handheld whole-body probes)

    Butterfly Network launched the Butterfly iQ in 2018 -- a smartphone-connected handheld ultrasound probe using a single semiconductor chip to replace the traditional piezoelectric transducer array -- at a price point that made personal ultrasound ownership realistic for individual clinicians. This was a qualitative shift from portable to truly personal ultrasound. Combined with AI acquisition guidance tools (GE Caption AI, FDA-cleared 2020), handheld POCUS began enabling non-sonographer clinicians (emergency physicians, hospitalists, PAs, nurses) to perform limited bedside studies -- cardiac screening views, FAST exams, vascular access guidance -- that previously required calling a sonographer. The competitive pressure on entry-level sonographer POCUS acquisition tasks became measurable by the early 2020s, particularly in ICU and emergency department settings.

    Effect on the work

    POCUS expansion created new volume of ultrasound exams performed in the US while beginning a slow scope-boundary shift at the entry-level sonographer task set. The overall employment growth trajectory of the occupation continued upward through this era, suggesting expanding total market was the dominant effect rather than displacement.

  • AI ultrasound tools (FDA-cleared biometry automation, AI echo measurement, AI BI-RADS, AI acquisition guidance)

    A wave of FDA-cleared AI tools arrived in diagnostic ultrasound between 2020 and 2025. GE Caption AI (FDA-cleared 2020) provides real-time cardiac probe positioning guidance for non-expert POCUS operators. GE HealthCare Voluson SonoLyst and Samsung HERA W10 BiometryAssist automate fetal anatomy labeling and OB biometry caliper placement, reducing routine measurement time by 40-60% per vendor validation studies presented at AIUM 2024. Ultromics EchoGo and Us2.ai automate echocardiographic LVEF, GLS, and diastolic measurements from standard echo clips. Koios DS provides real-time AI BI-RADS scoring for breast ultrasound lesion characterization at the console. Dragon Medical One extends AI voice dictation into ultrasound worksheet completion. The AI era has not displaced sonographers -- ARDMS credential volumes continued growing through 2025, and BLS projects +14% employment growth 2024-2034 -- but it has materially changed the daily task mix: measurement and biometry tasks that previously consumed significant per-study time are increasingly automated, while acquisition quality, scan-extension judgment, and the technical impression to the reading physician remain firmly human-dependent.

    Effect on the work

    As of 2025-2026, AI tools have augmented throughput rather than reduced headcount: sonographers at AI-equipped OB programs complete more studies per shift with equivalent or better accuracy. ARDMS and SDMS joint guidance affirms that real-time probe operation, patient assessment, and image adequacy judgment cannot be delegated to AI systems under current professional standards.

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Diagnostic Medical Sonographers employment and pay by year

On record since1969
Latest US employment90,160 (May 2025)Source: BLS OEWS May 2025Official statisticReport an error
Latest US median pay$96,590 (May 2025)Source: BLS OEWS May 2025Official statisticReport an error
Outlook+13.9% by 2035Source: BLS Employment Projections 2025-35Official statisticReport an error

In other countries

The latest figure each country's statistics agency publishes for this job. Each uses its own occupation definition, survey basis and currency, so the numbers are not directly comparable with each other or with the US figures.

  • Canada (NOC 32122)

    Employment, 2020
    6,650, Statistics Canada Census 2021 Official statistic Report an errorStatistics Canada Census of Population 2021: number of persons with employment income in NOC 32122 Medical sonographers, Canada, reference year 2020. A recipients basis (anyone with employment income during the year), slightly broader than a point-in-time employed count. Statistics Canada Open Licence.
    Median pay, 2020
    C$81,000, Statistics Canada Census 2021 Official statistic Report an errorStatistics Canada Census of Population 2021 (Table 98-10-0586): median employment income for NOC 32122 Medical sonographers, Canada, reference year 2020, full-year full-time workers (the basis comparable to the US OEWS full-time median). Statistics Canada Open Licence.
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YearUS employmentAnnual pay (median unless marked)SourceReport
197510,000n/aEst., ARDMS 50 Years Researched contextReport
198735,000n/aEst., ARDMS 50 Years Researched contextReport
199929,280$42,330BLS OEWS 1999 Official statisticReport
200337,240$49,960BLS OEWS May 2003 Official statisticReport
200441,280$52,490BLS OEWS May 2004 Official statisticReport
200543,590$54,370BLS OEWS May 2005 Official statisticReport
200644,340$57,160BLS OEWS May 2006 Official statisticReport
200746,770$59,860BLS OEWS May 2007 Official statisticReport
200848,920$61,980BLS OEWS May 2008 Official statisticReport
200951,630$63,010BLS OEWS May 2009 Official statisticReport
201053,010$64,380BLS OEWS May 2010 Official statisticReport
201154,760$65,210BLS OEWS May 2011 Official statisticReport
201257,700$65,860BLS OEWS May 2012 Official statisticReport
201358,250$66,410BLS OEWS May 2013 Official statisticReport
201459,760$67,530BLS OEWS May 2014 Official statisticReport
201561,250$68,970BLS OEWS May 2015 Official statisticReport
201665,790$69,650BLS OEWS May 2016 Official statisticReport
201768,750$71,410BLS OEWS May 2017 Official statisticReport
201871,130$72,510BLS OEWS May 2018 Official statisticReport
201972,790$74,320BLS OEWS May 2019 Official statisticReport
202073,920$75,920BLS OEWS May 2020 Official statisticReport
202178,640$77,740BLS OEWS May 2021 Official statisticReport
202281,080$81,350BLS OEWS May 2022 Official statisticReport
202382,780$84,470BLS OEWS May 2023 Official statisticReport
202486,460$89,340BLS OEWS May 2024 Official statisticReport
202590,160$96,590BLS OEWS May 2025 Official statisticReport
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