Radiologic Technologist Salary in Indiana 2026,
$77,640 Median | BLS Data by City

The published Indiana figure is $77,640 a year, or $37.33 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025 — 3.1% below the national median of $80,110. The band runs from $51,090 at the 10th percentile to $99,580 at the 90th. Indiana's flat 3.05% state income tax and low housing costs improve the net position relative to that gross comparison.

Yes. Operating radiation-producing equipment in Indiana requires certification through the Department of Health's radiologic health programme, which also inspects the equipment. The substantive standard comes from the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists — accredited education, the ARRT examination and continuing education — and the state certification is the authorisation layered on top. The ARRT registration is the portable credential; the state certificate is not.

Kokomo at $79,330, then Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood $79,100, Lafayette-West Lafayette $78,570, Fort Wayne $76,840 and Terre Haute $75,870. The whole state fits inside a few thousand dollars, which is unusually flat and reflects hospital systems paying on comparable scales statewide. Modality and shift, not city, decide an Indiana technologist's earnings.

By adding modalities. ARRT post-primary certifications in CT, mammography, vascular and interventional radiography are what Indiana employers pay differentials for, and they are the main reason the band stretches from a $62,840 twenty-fifth percentile to a $99,580 ninetieth. Night, weekend and on-call differentials add to that, and because Indiana taxes income at a flat 3.05% those extra hours are not taxed at a higher marginal rate.

It is a stable one. A location quotient of 1.15 across 5,470 jobs means the occupation is employed above the national rate for the state's size, supported by a strong hospital sector, and openings are spread across the state rather than concentrated in one metro. The pay sits 3.1% below the national median, so the case rests on cost of living, the flat state tax and the availability of cross-training rather than on headline wages.

Because hospital systems, not local labour markets, set the price. Indiana's imaging employment is dominated by a handful of large health systems operating across multiple regions, and they run comparable pay structures at their facilities regardless of city. That produces a range from $75,870 in Terre Haute to $79,330 in Kokomo — a spread narrower than a single shift differential in some cases. The practical consequence is that geographic arbitrage does not work in this occupation in this state. The variables that do work are internal to the job: which modalities a technologist is registered in, which shifts they take, and whether they hold a lead or specialist role.

It changes which jobs a technologist is eligible for, which is more powerful than a differential on the same job. ARRT post-primary certifications — computed tomography, mammography, vascular-interventional, cardiac-interventional — each require documented clinical experience plus an examination, and each opens a distinct set of postings. CT is the workhorse: volumes are growing faster than general radiography and round-the-clock CT coverage is standard in Indiana's larger hospitals. Interventional and cardiac catheterisation work sits highest, with call obligations attached, and is a large part of what the $99,580 ninetieth percentile consists of. A technologist who stays single-registered in general radiography will spend a career in the middle of this band regardless of experience.

Around getting cross-trained as fast as an employer will allow. The $51,090 tenth percentile is a new-graduate figure and it does not last long, but the way out of the lower half of the band is not tenure — it is a second modality. That means choosing a first employer partly on whether they will train and support post-primary certification, asking specifically whether CT cross-training is available and how soon, and taking the night and weekend rotations that both pay differentials and provide the varied case exposure that qualifies a technologist for those certifications. Indiana's flat tax means the differential hours are efficient, and the state's 310 pro-rated annual openings are spread widely enough that a technologist with two modalities has genuine choice.