Neurodiagnostic Technologists Salary in WA
In the 2025 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS dataset, Neurodiagnostic Technologists in WA have a median annual salary of $62,090, with 3,870 recorded jobs in this area. Recorded earnings range from $46,990 at the 10th percentile to $105,650 at the 90th percentile.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS · Data year: 2025 · Last updated: 2026-09-22
Salary overview
Median annual salary
$62,090
Data year: 2025
Hourly median
$29.85
Employment
3,870
Source
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS
Salary distribution
$46,990
10th
$51,290
25th
$62,090
Median
$83,080
75th
$105,650
90th
Local compared with national
WA
$62,090
Median annual · 2025
United States
$50,290
Median annual · 2025
The WA median is 23.5% above the national median in the available dataset (a difference of $11,800).
Top skills
- 1.Active ListeningImportance 4.0
- 2.SpeakingImportance 3.9
- 3.Reading ComprehensionImportance 3.8
- 4.Critical ThinkingImportance 3.8
- 5.MonitoringImportance 3.6
- 6.WritingImportance 3.4
- 7.Social PerceptivenessImportance 3.3
- 8.Active LearningImportance 3.1
- 9.Learning StrategiesImportance 3.1
- 10.InstructingImportance 3.1
- 11.Service OrientationImportance 3.1
- 12.Complex Problem SolvingImportance 3.1
Career information
Education and experience
- Typical education
- Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree
- Experience
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years
- Job zone
- 3
Technology used
- 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
- Neurotronics Polysmith
Common 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.
- Attach electrodes to patients, using adhesives.
- Measure patients' body parts and mark locations where electrodes are to be placed.
Related careers
Occupations recorded as related in the dataset. A relationship does not imply a guaranteed transition.