Radiologic Technologist Salary in New York 2026,
$98,470 Median | BLS Data by City

New York radiologic technologists earn a median $98,470 a year, $47.34 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025, with the middle half between $82,670 and $110,950 and a full range of $67,540 to $129,310. That is 22.9% above the $80,110 national median — one of the widest state premiums for this occupation.

Kingston at $103,480, then New York-Newark-Jersey City at $102,730, Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh at $95,860, Binghamton at $95,830 and Ithaca at $95,460. The table is unusually flat and every metro is well above the national median — and the upstate figures come without New York City's resident income tax.

The New York State Department of Health, through its Bureau of Environmental Radiation Protection. That is unusual for New York, where most professions are licensed by the State Education Department's Office of the Professions. Licensure requires an approved programme and the ARRT examination or equivalent, and New York maintains separate licence categories for radiologic technology, nuclear medicine technology and radiation therapy.

State rates run progressively from 4% to 10.9%, and at $98,470 a technologist sits in the middle brackets. A resident of the five boroughs pays an additional city income tax of roughly 3.078% to 3.876%, which applies to call pay and night differentials as well as base salary. Employees also fund Paid Family Leave at 0.432% of wages in 2026, capped at $411.91.

Licensure and hospital sector structure. New York requires a state licence with defined categories, which constrains supply relative to states permitting broader on-the-job entry, and its hospital sector — heavily unionised in the metropolitan area and across much of the state — sets scales through collective agreements rather than individual negotiation. Together those produce a $98,470 median against a national $80,110, with the premium holding across upstate and downstate alike.

Because pay here is set by licensure and institutional scales rather than local market conditions. Hospital collective agreements cover a large share of New York's radiologic technologists, and those agreements set structured rates with defined differentials that apply regardless of metro. The result is Kingston at $103,480 and Ithaca at $95,460 within eight thousand dollars of each other, and both well above the national median — a pattern that reflects institutional structure rather than the supply-and-demand story that shapes most occupations in this batch.

The occupation code pools general radiographers with technologists who have cross-trained into CT and interventional work but remain coded here, so the $67,540-to-$129,310 band covers several credential levels. New York's separate licence categories for nuclear medicine and radiation therapy also mean that some of the state's best-paid imaging technologists sit outside this occupation entirely. Read the $82,670 twenty-fifth percentile as the general-radiography floor and the $110,950 seventy-fifth as the advanced-modality marker.

Modality credentials and shift. Adding ARRT post-primary certification in computed tomography is the standard first step and typically attaches to a defined pay increment under New York hospital agreements; interventional, cardiac catheterisation and mammography follow. Imaging runs around the clock, so night, weekend and call-back differentials are how a technologist reaches the $110,950 seventy-fifth percentile without leaving bedside work — and New York's separate nuclear medicine and radiation therapy licence categories are the routes into the state's highest-paid imaging roles.