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Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians

SOC 29-2031 · 2024-2034

Conduct tests on pulmonary or cardiovascular systems of patients for diagnostic, therapeutic, or research purposes. May conduct or assist in electrocardiograms, cardiac catheterizations, pulmonary functions, lung capacity, and similar tests.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

What California expects of this job

Typical pay in California
$80,358per year
Projected openings
4,280
Projected change
+15.5%
Usually needs
Associate's degree

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

  1. Active Listening
  2. Monitoring
  3. Critical Thinking
  4. Speaking
  5. Operations Monitoring
  6. Reading Comprehension

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$132,92720
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$127,678150
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$107,78260
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$106,72450
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$105,73820
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$102,161100
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$94,55250
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$92,412210
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$87,76260
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$87,587270
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$85,32840
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$79,904290
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$79,67840
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$78,178360
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$72,60120
Chico MSA (Butte County)$67,42420
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$65,441650
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$65,4411,560
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$64,86670
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$63,32590
San Rafael MD (Marin County)Not reported20

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under
$56,252
A quarter earn under
$67,940
Half earn under
$80,358
Three quarters earn under
$127,677
The highest-paid tenth earn over
$161,878

A median is one point. These are the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2026 figures for California, and they say how far apart the people doing this job actually are. Read them as the spread across everyone already in the work — not as a starting wage and not as a promise about where anyone lands.

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

OccupationTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Diagnostic Medical Sonographers$132,1288,010+23.1%
Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other$62,08022,750+14.3%
Radiologic Technologists and Technicians$124,65415,070+16.7%
Radiation Therapists$171,1091,000+11.8%
Respiratory Therapists$107,75414,350+22.2%
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists$127,4712,720+18.4%

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