Radiologic Technologist Salary in Massachusetts 2026,
$103,620 Median | BLS Data by City

Massachusetts radiologic technologists earn a median $103,620 a year, $49.82 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025, with the middle half between $83,200 and $122,900 and a full range of $75,350 to $131,940. That is 29.3% above the $80,110 national median, among the highest state figures in the country.

Boston-Cambridge-Newton at $104,590, then Worcester at $103,090, Barnstable Town at $100,660, Pittsfield at $90,530 and Springfield at $83,280 — a spread of more than twenty-one thousand dollars, the widest of any occupation in this Massachusetts unit. Imaging volume and the academic medical centres of eastern Massachusetts are what create it.

The Department of Public Health's Radiation Control Program, rather than an occupational licensing board. Licensure requires completion of an accredited programme and the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists examination, with modality-specific requirements for computed tomography, mammography and other advanced practice. Housing the licence inside radiation control reflects its origin as a dose-safety measure as much as a professional credential.

Imaging volume and modality scarcity. The state's academic medical centres run high-throughput imaging departments around the clock, advanced modalities require additional certification that takes time to obtain, and Massachusetts's cost of living sets a high wage floor. The result is $103,620 against a national median of $80,110 — one of the few allied health occupations where a two-year credential reaches six figures.

A flat 5% state income tax on wages, with the additional 4% surtax applying only above one million dollars, and no city or town income tax in Massachusetts. At a $103,620 salary the state bill is simple; the variable that changes real income is where in the state you live, given how far Boston housing costs run above the western counties.

Because imaging is a volume business and the volume is in the east. Boston's academic medical centres and their affiliates run large, continuously staffed imaging departments with advanced modality suites, overnight and weekend coverage and a constant need for cross-trained technologists — and they compete with each other for the same licensed pool. Springfield at $83,280 and Pittsfield at $90,530 serve smaller community hospital systems with lower throughput and fewer advanced suites, so the same licence is worth substantially less there.

The band mixes general radiographers with technologists certified in computed tomography, mammography, interventional radiology and other advanced modalities, and most of the $75,350 to $131,940 range is that mix. The figure also includes overnight, weekend and on-call differentials that are a significant part of hospital imaging pay and that do not come free — the schedule attached to the upper half of this band is demanding, and the annualised number does not show it.

Modality, then setting. Cross-training into computed tomography is the most reliable single step, followed by mammography, interventional radiology and advanced cardiac imaging, each with its own certification. After that, the academic medical centres pay above community hospitals and outpatient imaging centres, and lead technologist, clinical instructor and modality supervisor roles add responsibility. Overnight and weekend differentials are what carry an individual technologist from the $103,620 median toward the $122,900 seventy-fifth percentile.