Neurodiagnostic Technologists Career, Salary and Skills
Neurodiagnostic Technologists have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $50,290 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 182,610. Wage data is published for 391 locations.
Occupation description
Conduct electroneurodiagnostic (END) tests such as electroencephalograms, evoked potentials, polysomnograms, or electronystagmograms. May perform nerve conduction studies.
O*NET code
29-2099.01
Job zone
3
Typical education
Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree
Experience
Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$50,290
Hourly median
$24.18
Employment
182,610
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Active Listening | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Speaking | 3.88 | 3.88 |
| Reading Comprehension | 3.75 | 4.12 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.75 | 4.00 |
| Monitoring | 3.62 | 3.62 |
| Writing | 3.38 | 3.38 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 3.25 | 3.12 |
| Learning Strategies | 3.12 | 3.12 |
| Active Learning | 3.12 | 3.25 |
| Instructing | 3.12 | 3.12 |
Typical tasks
- Indicate artifacts or interferences derived from sources outside of the brain, such as poor electrode contact or patient movement, on electroneurodiagnostic recordings.
- Monitor patients during tests or surgeries, using electroencephalographs (EEG), evoked potential (EP) instruments, or video recording equipment.
- Conduct tests or studies such as electroencephalography (EEG), polysomnography (PSG), nerve conduction studies (NCS), electromyography (EMG), and intraoperative monitoring (IOM).
- Collect patients' medical information needed to customize tests.
- Explain testing procedures to patients, answering questions or reassuring patients, as needed.
- Set up, program, or record montages or electrical combinations when testing peripheral nerve, spinal cord, subcortical, or cortical responses.
- Summarize technical data to assist physicians to diagnose brain, sleep, or nervous system disorders.
- Conduct tests to determine cerebral death, the absence of brain activity, or the probability of recovery from a coma.
Technology
- BESA EEGFocus
- Cadwell Laboratories Easy
- Database software
- EEG Portaview
- FileMaker Pro
- JavaScript
- MEDITECH software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Word
- Natus NeuroWorks
- Neurofax SpikeDetector
Neurodiagnostic Technologists salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists Salary in CAMedian $60,390 · Employment 26,540
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists Salary in TXMedian $47,870 · Employment 15,370
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists Salary in PAMedian $46,720 · Employment 13,200
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists Salary in New York, NYMedian $61,440 · Employment 12,400
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists Salary in NYMedian $60,320 · Employment 11,910
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists Salary in FLMedian $45,760 · Employment 10,130
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $59,210 · Employment 9,940
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists Salary in OHMedian $47,570 · Employment 8,590
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists Salary in NCMedian $46,480 · Employment 6,640
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists Salary in GAMedian $49,310 · Employment 6,360
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists Salary in MOMedian $46,040 · Employment 5,900
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists Salary in MIMedian $48,520 · Employment 5,870
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.