Radiologic Technologist Salary in Arkansas 2026,
$63,640 Median | BLS Data by City

A median $63,640 a year, or $30.60 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025, with the middle half between $57,190 and $78,480 and a full range of $46,810 to $94,180. That is 20.6% below the $80,110 national median, though the state's 75th percentile approaches the national median and the 90th exceeds it.

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers at $77,300, followed by Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway at $73,830, Fort Smith at $64,410, Jonesboro at $61,630 and Hot Springs at $59,490. The nearly eighteen-thousand-dollar gap between north-west Arkansas and Hot Springs is the widest in this unit and worth taking seriously as a relocation decision.

Yes — Arkansas licenses radiologic technologists through the Department of Health, which distinguishes it from several states in this batch that leave the field to national certification alone. Requirements have been revised over time, so confirm the current position with the department. Alongside the state licence, ARRT registration is what employers screen on, and advanced registries in CT, MRI, mammography or interventional work determine which modalities you can actually work in.

Interventional and cardiovascular imaging, followed by MRI, CT and mammography. Those are what the $78,480 seventy-fifth percentile and the $94,180 ninetieth are built from, and the distance between a general radiographer at the $57,190 twenty-fifth percentile and a multi-registry interventional technologist is more than thirty-seven thousand dollars. Interventional work also carries call, which is paid separately and adds meaningfully on top.

Cross-train into CT as soon as you have the general radiography experience for it, then add MRI or interventional. Each additional ARRT registry moves you up the band, and multiple registries plus call responsibility are what reach the $78,480 seventy-fifth percentile and the $94,180 ninetieth. Combining that with a move to north-west Arkansas or Little Rock compounds the effect — those two decisions together cover most of the distance from the bottom of this band to the top.

Because Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers is not really competing in an Arkansas labour market. Three large corporate headquarters and a major university sit in that corner of the state, and the regional wage floor they set pulls up occupations with no connection to them — a radiologic technologist there earns $77,300 against $59,490 in Hot Springs, a difference of nearly eighteen thousand dollars for the same licence and the same registries. The hospital systems in that market have to compete for staff against employers paying corporate wages. For a technologist whose location is flexible, that is the single largest published lever in this occupation in Arkansas, and it does not carry a proportionate cost-of-living penalty.

Call and differentials, and the width of the band. Interventional and cross-sectional technologists take call, and hospitals pay both a stipend and a callback rate that a base annual median excludes entirely. The figure also blends hospital work with outpatient imaging centres, which typically pay less but offer regular hours and no call, and it treats a general radiographer and a multi-registry interventional technologist as the same occupation despite a gap of more than thirty-seven thousand dollars between them.

Two levers, and unusually both are large. Registries: add CT first, then MRI or interventional and cardiovascular, and mammography if it suits — multiple registries are what reach the $78,480 seventy-fifth percentile and the $94,180 ninetieth. And geography: north-west Arkansas or Little Rock over the smaller markets is worth up to eighteen thousand dollars. Take call, which is paid separately. Lead technologist and modality supervisor roles at UAMS, Baptist Health and the north-west systems are the management route.