Radiologic Technologist Salary in Michigan 2026,
$76,420 Median | BLS Data by City

Michigan radiologic technologists earn a median $76,420 a year, $36.74 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025, with the middle half between $63,270 and $81,700 and a full range of $55,450 to $97,250. That is 4.6% below the $80,110 national median.

Ann Arbor at $80,450, then Lansing-East Lansing at $78,590, Kalamazoo-Portage at $78,140, Detroit-Warren-Dearborn at $77,530 and Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood at $77,360. The table spans about three thousand dollars, so the modality you are credentialed in matters far more than the metro — and city income taxes can exceed the difference between markets.

No, and it is one of very few states in that position. There is no Michigan licence, no state scope definition and no limited-scope category. Employers set their own standards, and in practice hospitals and imaging centres require ARRT registration. The absence of licensure means the state provides no floor: the credential you hold is entirely a matter of national certification and employer policy.

Michigan applies a flat 4.25% state income tax to base pay, call pay and differentials alike. Municipal income taxes apply in around two dozen Michigan cities, with Detroit at 2.4% for residents and 1.2% for non-residents working there. Because the state's metro pay table is so flat, the city rate can matter more to take-home pay than which market you work in.

It shifts responsibility to employers and to you. Without a state licence there is no legal floor on who may operate imaging equipment in Michigan, so smaller clinics and urgent care settings can employ less credentialed operators — which is largely what the $55,450 tenth percentile represents. For a technologist, it means ARRT registration is doing all the work of a credential: it is what hospitals require, what modality progression is built on, and what makes your qualification portable to states that do license.

Because there is no licensure floor. In states with radiologic licensure, even a limited-scope credential requires approved coursework and an examination, which sets a minimum. Michigan has none, so employers in clinic, urgent care and orthopaedic settings can define their own standards, and the resulting pay for those roles sits around the $55,450 tenth percentile. The $63,270 twenty-fifth percentile is closer to what an ARRT-registered radiographer earns in a hospital, and it is the figure to read if that is your credential.

The occupation code pools employer-trained operators with ARRT-registered radiographers and with technologists who have cross-trained into CT and interventional work but remain coded here, producing a $55,450-to-$97,250 band that covers several different jobs. Use the $63,270 twenty-fifth percentile as the registered-radiographer floor and the $81,700 seventy-fifth as the advanced-modality marker rather than treating the median as a single career point.

Modality stacking and shift. ARRT post-primary certification in computed tomography is the standard first step and typically attaches to a defined pay increment in Michigan hospital systems; interventional, cardiac catheterisation and mammography follow. Imaging departments run around the clock, so night, weekend and call-back differentials are how a technologist reaches the $81,700 seventy-fifth percentile without leaving bedside work — and MRI carries the last stretch toward $97,250.