Radiologic Technologist Salary in Georgia 2026,
$74,550 Median | BLS Data by City

A median $74,550 a year, or $35.84 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025 — 6.9% below the national median of $80,110. The band runs $49,730 at the 10th percentile to $102,840 at the 90th, with the middle half between $60,800 and $85,300. The upper half of that band is modality-certified rather than general radiography work.

No, and this is one of the more consequential facts about the profession in this state. Georgia is among the minority of states with no radiography licensure at all — no state credential, no examination, no statutory scope of practice. ARRT registration is what employers require in practice, and hospital credentialing and payer requirements assume it. For a technologist relocating from a licensing state the effect is that nothing needs to be transferred; for a Georgia technologist moving elsewhere, the destination state's licence will need obtaining.

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell at $80,710, then Athens-Clarke County $75,360, Albany $74,910, Gainesville $71,270 and Savannah $67,810. The thirteen-thousand-dollar gap from top to bottom is wide for this occupation, and it tracks where advanced imaging capacity sits — the Atlanta hospital systems carry the interventional, cardiac and high-end cross-sectional work.

Interventional and cardiac catheterisation laboratory work sits at the top, followed by magnetic resonance and computed tomography, with mammography and general radiography below. Because Georgia has no state licence, ARRT modality certifications are the only formal ladder in the job — they are what an employer can actually verify. Adding one is the clearest route from the $60,800 quarter-point past the $74,550 median, and multi-modality competence plus interventional work is what reaches the $85,300 seventy-fifth percentile.

Administratively, yes. With no state licence to obtain, a technologist with current ARRT registration can be hired as soon as an employer completes its own credentialing, which removes the weeks or months a licensing state can add. That fluidity cuts both ways: it makes the state easy to enter and it means Georgia employers face less friction filling posts, which is part of why the median sits 6.9% below the national figure despite a location quotient slightly above the national rate.

Three things. First, entry: a technologist with ARRT registration can start work in Georgia without a state application, which shortens hiring and makes the labour market more fluid than in licensing states. Second, structure: with no state tiers, the only verifiable ladder is ARRT modality certification, so career progression here is defined by which modalities a technologist holds rather than by any state-recognised seniority. Third, enforcement: there is no state board to discipline practice, so accountability runs through the employer and through ARRT's own ethics processes. For most technologists the practical effect is simply that the modality certification list is the whole of their professional record.

SOC 29-2034 covers radiologic technologists and technicians together, pooling general radiographers with modality-certified staff whose markets differ substantially, which is why the band runs from $49,730 to $102,840. The estimate also reports annual wages including shift and call differentials without separating them, and imaging is a heavily differential-driven job. And with about 7,540 technologists statewide, the smaller metro rows such as Albany at $74,910 rest on modest samples.

Modality certification first, and it is the only formal lever in a state with no licence — computed tomography, magnetic resonance and especially interventional work carry the clearest premiums. Setting second: the Atlanta hospital systems at $80,710 hold the advanced imaging capacity, and rural hospitals pay below. Call and shift availability third, since differentials are a large share of real earnings and Georgia's flat tax means picking up extra shifts does not move a technologist into a higher bracket. Lead and supervisory roles fourth, which reach the $102,840 ninetieth percentile.