# Health Technologists and Technicians

> SOC minor group 29-2000 within Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations — 29 detailed occupations.

- **SOC minor group:** 29-2000
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/health-technologists-and-technicians
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap, not jobs lost. Figures below are aggregates over the group's member occupations, each traced to a named public dataset.

## Scale & pay

- **Employment (BLS OEWS, May 2024):** 3,303,750.
- **Median wage:** $50,250.
- **Projected growth (BLS 2024–34):** 6.2%.
- **Annual openings:** 279.6.

## AI exposure

- **AI task-overlap (mean across member occupations):** 42nd percentile (Moderate) — Eloundou GPT-overlap + Felten AIOE; task overlap, not automation.

## Member occupations

- Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2061-00) — $62,340; 0th percentile overlap
- Pharmacy Technicians (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2052-00) — $43,460; 0th percentile overlap
- Radiologic Technologists and Technicians (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2034-00) — $77,660; 0th percentile overlap
- Medical Records Specialists (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2072-00) — $50,250; 1st percentile overlap
- Emergency Medical Technicians (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2042-00) — $41,340; 0th percentile overlap
- Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2099-00) — $48,790; 1st percentile overlap
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2099-01) — $48,790; 1st percentile overlap
- Ophthalmic Medical Technologists (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2099-05) — $48,790; 1st percentile overlap
- Patient Representatives (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2099-08) — $48,790; 1st percentile overlap
- Psychiatric Technicians (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2053-00) — $42,590; 0th percentile overlap
- Veterinary Technologists and Technicians (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2056-00) — $45,980; 0th percentile overlap
- Surgical Technologists (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2055-00) — $62,830; 0th percentile overlap
- Paramedics (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2043-00) — $58,410; 0th percentile overlap
- Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2032-00) — $89,340; 0th percentile overlap
- Opticians, Dispensing (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2081-00) — $46,560; 0th percentile overlap
- Ophthalmic Medical Technicians (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2057-00) — $44,080; 0th percentile overlap
- Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2031-00) — $67,260; 0th percentile overlap
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2035-00) — $88,180; 0th percentile overlap
- Dietetic Technicians (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2051-00) — $37,040; 0th percentile overlap
- Nuclear Medicine Technologists (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2033-00) — $97,020; 0th percentile overlap

## Sources

- **O*NET** (30.3) — U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)** (May 2024) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS Employment Projections** (2024–2034) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **“GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.)** (arXiv 2303.10130) — OpenAI / academic. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130
- **AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE)** (Felten, Raj & Seamans) — academic. https://github.com/AIOE-Data/AIOE

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_Generated from Singulariki's joined dataset; data snapshot 2026-06-02T20:31:11.516731+00:00. https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/health-technologists-and-technicians_