Radiologists Career, Salary and Skills
Radiologists have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $420,860 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 26,770. Wage data is published for 80 locations.
Occupation description
Diagnose and treat diseases and injuries using medical imaging techniques, such as x rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear medicine, and ultrasounds. May perform minimally invasive medical procedures and tests.
O*NET code
29-1224.00
Job zone
5
Typical education
Post-Doctoral Training
Experience
Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$420,860
Hourly median
$202.34
Employment
26,770
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 4.25 | 5.12 |
| Active Listening | 4.25 | 4.38 |
| Speaking | 4.25 | 4.25 |
| Critical Thinking | 4.12 | 4.88 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 4.12 | 4.25 |
| Writing | 4.12 | 4.38 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 4.00 | 4.25 |
| Monitoring | 4.00 | 4.25 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Active Learning | 3.88 | 4.25 |
Typical tasks
- Instruct radiologic staff in desired techniques, positions, or projections.
- Advise other physicians of the clinical indications, limitations, assessments, or risks of diagnostic and therapeutic applications of radioactive materials.
- Prepare comprehensive interpretive reports of findings.
- Perform or interpret the outcomes of diagnostic imaging procedures including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), nuclear cardiology treadmill studies, mammography, or ultrasound.
- Document the performance, interpretation, or outcomes of all procedures performed.
- Communicate examination results or diagnostic information to referring physicians, patients, or families.
- Obtain patients' histories from electronic records, patient interviews, dictated reports, or by communicating with referring clinicians.
- Check and approve the quality of diagnostic images before patients are discharged.
Technology
- ACOM Solutions RAPID EMR
- Advanced Data Systems MedicsRis
- Allscripts PM
- Allscripts Professional EHR
- Alteer Office
- athenahealth athenaCollector
- Automatic Data Processing AdvancedMD EHR
- Avreo Radiology Workflow Solutions
- Benchmark Systems Benchmark Clinical EHR
- Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMR
- CareCloud Central
- Cerner PowerWorks Practice Management
- Computer aided image analysis software
- Digital image processing software
Radiologists salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Radiologists Salary in TXMedian $319,320 · Employment 2,330
- Radiologists Salary in NYMedian $441,580 · Employment 2,010
- Radiologists Salary in New York, NYMedian $465,780 · Employment 1,950
- Radiologists Salary in FLMedian $417,690 · Employment 1,680
- Radiologists Salary in PAMedian $455,380 · Employment 1,360
- Radiologists Salary in WIMedian $392,610 · Employment 980
- Radiologists Salary in OHMedian $260,000 · Employment 770
- Radiologists Salary in Dallas, TXMedian $156,800 · Employment 770
- Radiologists Salary in CAMedian $270,560 · Employment 690
- Radiologists Salary in INMedian $430,640 · Employment 680
- Radiologists Salary in Philadelphia, PAMedian $452,940 · Employment 550
- Radiologists Salary in Houston, TXMedian $131,470 · Employment 500
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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.