Radiologic Technologist Salary in Texas 2026,
$78,630 Median | BLS Data by City

Texas radiologic technologists earn a median $78,630 a year, $37.80 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025, with the middle half between $63,210 and $93,830 and a full range of $48,550 to $102,630. That is 1.8% below the $80,110 national median before tax and above it after, because Texas takes no income tax.

Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos at $83,870, then Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington at $83,140, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands at $80,780, Midland at $80,700 and San Antonio-New Braunfels at $78,070. The table spans under six thousand dollars, so in Texas the modality you are credentialed in matters considerably more than the city you work in.

The Texas Medical Board, which administers the Medical Radiologic Technologist certificate. That is unusual — most states use a separate radiologic health programme or licensing board — and it means applications, renewals and continuing education all run through the medical board. Texas issues a general certificate, which requires ARRT registration or an equivalent examination, and limited certificates restricted to defined anatomical areas for clinic-based work.

No. Texas has no personal income tax and no local income tax, so a technologist at the median of $78,630 keeps the whole amount apart from federal tax, including call pay, night and weekend differentials and overtime — which in a hospital imaging department is a meaningful share of annual earnings.

Scope, and it drives pay. The general Medical Radiologic Technologist certificate permits full-body radiography and is the basis for hospital employment and modality progression. A limited certificate authorises imaging only of defined anatomical areas — chest, extremities, spine — and is aimed at clinic and orthopaedic practice settings. Limited-certificate holders sit at the bottom of the Texas band around the $48,550 tenth percentile and cannot progress into CT, MRI or interventional work without the general certificate and ARRT registration.

Because Texas's limited-certificate structure creates a legally distinct lower tier that most states do not have in the same form. Clinics, orthopaedic practices and urgent-care centres across Texas employ limited-scope technologists to image specific anatomical regions, and that work is genuinely paid around the $48,550 tenth percentile. The $63,210 twenty-fifth percentile is closer to what a general-certificate ARRT-registered radiographer earns in a hospital, and it is the number to read if that is your qualification.

The occupation code pools limited-scope clinic technologists with general radiographers and with technologists who have cross-trained into CT and interventional work but are still coded here. That produces a $48,550-to-$102,630 band covering three different jobs. Use the $63,210 twenty-fifth percentile as the general-radiography floor and the $93,830 seventy-fifth as the advanced-modality marker rather than treating the median as a single career point.

Modality stacking and shift. Adding ARRT post-primary certification in computed tomography is the standard first step and typically attaches to a defined pay increment in Texas hospital systems; interventional, cardiac catheterisation and mammography follow. On top of that, imaging departments run around the clock, and night, weekend and call-back differentials are how a technologist reaches the $93,830 seventy-fifth percentile without leaving bedside work — with Texas taxing none of the additional amount.