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Biological Technicians earn $57,510 a year at the midpoint

Half earn more than that and half earn less. The lowest tenth are paid about $40,330, the highest tenth about $84,940 — figures from the 2025 federal wage survey.

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$57,510median a year · United States
$27.65an hour $61,380average 69,620people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$48,13025th $57,510median $71,52075th
$40,33010th percentile $84,94090th percentile
$48,130a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$71,440best-paying state · California
$41,300lowest-paying state · South Dakota
+24%top state against the national median
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  • What the figure counts. The figure counts base pay plus tips, commissions and production bonuses. It leaves out the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and the value of benefits or profit sharing.
  • The annual figure is arithmetic. For hourly occupations the annual figure is the hourly rate times 2080 hours. It is a calculation, not observed earnings: part time is the norm in retail and food service.
  • Where you live moves it more than your resume does. National figures. A state or metro area can sit far from the national number, and that gap is usually larger than any difference a resume makes.
  • Not in these numbers. Growth and annual openings are not in this dataset. They come from the separate Employment Projections tables, where an opening is a modelled ten year average and not a posted vacancy.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025. Retrieved through the BLS Public Data API on 2026-08-13. bls.gov/oes “BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.”

State matters a lotThe same job pays $71,440 in California and $41,300 in South Dakota — a gap of $30,140 a year.

Biological technician earnings, from starting pay to the top 10%

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Related work, and what it pays

Occupations in the same group of the federal classification — the usual next steps, or the ones beside this one.

Biological Technicians$57,510
Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health$55,090−$2,420 Geological Technicians, Except Hydrologic Technicians$53,350−$4,160 Food Science Technicians$52,130−$5,380 Agricultural Technicians$49,630−$7,880

Biological technician pay rate, hourly to annual

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$57,512a year

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Place 437 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 45% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 435 Plasterers and Stucco Masons $57,660
  2. 436 Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians $57,550
  3. 437 Biological Technicians $57,510
  4. 438 Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining $57,430
  5. 439 Stonemasons $57,390

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  • Conducted research, or assist in the conduct of research, including the collection of information and samples, such as blood, water, soil, plants and animals.
  • Monitored and observed experiments, recording production and test data for evaluation by research personnel.
  • Examined animals and specimens to detect the presence of disease or other problems.

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Biological technician wages across the states

The 48 states where the most people do this work, of 51 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.73 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
California $71,440 $46,700 $46,700 — $121,670 9,210
New Jersey $66,040 $47,650 $47,650 — $97,850 1,290
District of Columbia $64,770 $42,230 $42,230 — $81,560 210
Connecticut $62,360 $39,520 $39,520 — $92,180 650
Massachusetts $62,070 $49,880 $49,880 — $94,760 8,430
North Carolina $61,720 $41,300 $41,300 — $79,070 2,460
New York $61,210 $39,040 $39,040 — $79,630 5,050
Washington $60,800 $45,720 $45,720 — $79,580 3,210
Maine $60,160 $46,450 $46,450 — $79,510 510
Colorado $59,400 $49,480 $49,480 — $79,380 1,990
Indiana $58,790 $45,140 $45,140 — $84,900 1,020
Delaware $58,550 $44,570 $44,570 — $77,910 180
Mississippi $56,930 $38,550 $38,550 — $79,440 330
Alaska $56,470 $44,720 $44,720 — $76,860 410
Illinois $55,790 $36,230 $36,230 — $79,440 790
New Hampshire $55,540 $41,410 $41,410 — $77,860 240
North Dakota $55,330 $44,950 $44,950 — $69,150 250
Pennsylvania $54,950 $43,270 $43,270 — $80,530 2,820
Virginia $53,360 $40,330 $40,330 — $79,470 1,820
Arizona $53,290 $44,040 $44,040 — $81,960 830
South Carolina $53,040 $35,710 $35,710 — $74,890 550
Utah $52,960 $40,330 $40,330 — $82,500 710
Maryland $52,900 $41,270 $41,270 — $82,280 3,470
Georgia $52,420 $42,940 $42,940 — $72,420 860
Oregon $52,190 $40,330 $40,330 — $73,740 1,590
Wisconsin $51,750 $40,330 $40,330 — $73,570 1,800
Nevada $51,680 $37,620 $37,620 — $65,930 280
Kansas $51,630 $36,700 $36,700 — $82,650 480
Vermont $51,190 $44,390 $44,390 — $64,890 220
Ohio $51,080 $36,400 $36,400 — $79,490 2,240
Michigan $51,070 $38,900 $38,900 — $67,870 1,160
Tennessee $50,840 $41,440 $41,440 — $80,330 1,240
Missouri $50,640 $38,800 $38,800 — $74,600 620
Texas $50,130 $36,960 $36,960 — $80,600 2,730
Montana $49,920 $40,330 $40,330 — $64,980 430
Alabama $49,220 $35,610 $35,610 — $62,230 270
Kentucky $48,910 $35,280 $35,280 — $73,040 260
Hawaii $48,770 $36,090 $36,090 — $63,520 830
Florida $48,700 $36,050 $36,050 — $78,130 3,170
Nebraska $48,220 $35,380 $35,380 — $67,200 600
Minnesota $48,130 $40,940 $40,940 — $73,280 1,400
Iowa $48,050 $39,310 $39,310 — $72,510 800
Oklahoma $47,850 $38,990 $38,990 — $75,360 360
Louisiana $47,310 $32,390 $32,390 — $77,400 190
Arkansas $46,930 $34,920 $34,920 — $73,750 420
Wyoming $46,480 $40,330 $40,330 — $62,980 190
Idaho $42,130 $36,030 $36,030 — $59,010 450
South Dakota $41,300 $38,170 $38,170 — $56,620 230

Questions people ask

What is a biological technician’s yearly income?

A biological technician makes a median of $57,510 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $48,130 and $71,520.

What is a biological technician’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $27.65 an hour; the average is $61,380 a year.

What is the starting pay for a biological technician?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $48,130 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $40,330.

Which state pays biological technicians the most?

California, with a median of $71,440 a year.

How many people work as biological technicians?

About 69,620 in the United States — number 437 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays nearly the same

Median pay within $190 of what biological technicians earn — $57,510 a year — but not always the same spread.

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