Radiologic Technologist Salary in Maine 2026,
$80,080 Median | BLS Data by City

The published Maine figure is $80,080 a year, or $38.50 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025, with a band from $62,210 at the 10th percentile to $102,640 at the 90th. That is essentially level with the national median of $80,110. Maine employs 1,050 technologists at a location quotient of 1.1 — slightly above the national employment rate for the occupation.

Lewiston-Auburn at $84,510, then Portland-South Portland $80,910 and Bangor $77,620. Lewiston-Auburn leading is consistent with the rest of Maine's health-care wage data: mid-sized markets with concentrated hospital employment and shallow candidate pools have to pay above the largest metro to fill clinical posts.

Yes. The Maine Radiologic Technology Board of Examiners, within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, licenses the occupation on completion of an accredited programme and ARRT certification, with continuing education at renewal and licence categories determining the modalities a technologist may operate. Many states do not license this role at all, so a technologist relocating into Maine must obtain the state licence before practising — it is not something an employer can waive.

Because the credential structure is modality-based rather than seniority-based. A general radiographer and a technologist credentialed in CT, mammography or interventional imaging do different work at different pay, and both sit inside SOC 29-2034. The distance from the $68,110 twenty-fifth percentile to the $92,410 seventy-fifth is largely post-primary certification, not years of service — which is unusually good news, because it means the wage responds to a decision rather than to time.

Maine's schedule is progressive to 7.15%, and at $80,080 a technologist is in the middle-to-upper part of it, so the marginal income from adding a modality credential and moving toward $92,410 is taxed more heavily than the base pay. Peer states publishing nearly the same median — Utah at $81,000, Idaho at $80,080 — apply lower flat rates. Maine's counterweight is that licensure restricts the supply of technologists, which supports the wage in the first place.

Because it changes both the entry process and the market. In an unlicensed state, the ARRT credential is a hiring preference an employer can relax when short-staffed; in Maine it underpins a legal licence issued by the Radiologic Technology Board of Examiners, and a hospital cannot put an unlicensed person on a machine regardless of how urgent the vacancy is. That constrains supply — which supports the wage — and it slows lateral entry, since a technologist relocating into Maine must complete the licensing process before starting work.

It blends modalities with materially different pay. SOC 29-2034 covers radiologic technologists and technicians as one occupation, so general radiography sits alongside CT, mammography and interventional work in a single median. A technologist holding only the primary radiography credential should reason from the $68,110 twenty-fifth percentile rather than from the median, and one holding several post-primary certifications should be looking at the $92,410 seventy-fifth percentile as the relevant benchmark.

Post-primary modality credentials, then shift. CT is the most broadly useful addition in a state where emergency imaging drives a lot of volume; mammography and interventional or vascular credentials narrow the competing pool further. Those are what carry a technologist to the $92,410 seventy-fifth percentile. On top of that, night, weekend and on-call rotations in Maine's hospital systems add differentials that the annual figure absorbs, and a lead technologist role running a department reaches the $102,640 top decile.