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Pay · 29-2051

Dietetic Technicians earn $37,640 a year at the midpoint

Starting pay is close to the middle here: the 25th percentile is $33,880 against a median of $37,640, so the first years are not a long climb.

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$37,640median a year · United States
$18.09an hour $40,630average 31,560people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$33,88025th $37,640median $45,75075th
$29,72010th percentile $54,02090th percentile
$33,880a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$54,670best-paying state · Oregon
$28,690lowest-paying state · Mississippi
+45%top state against the national median
  • Read the spread, not the middle. The median is the midpoint across everyone in the occupation, most of them years into the work. A beginner starts nearer the 10th to 25th percentile, which is why the spread is published alongside it.
  • 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.”

A short climbThe 25th percentile, $33,880, is within 10% of the median.
State matters a lotThe same job pays $54,670 in Oregon and $28,690 in Mississippi — a gap of $25,980 a year.

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

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Dietetic technician wages, state by state

Across 45 states the median ranges by 1.91 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
Oregon $54,670 $43,580 $43,580 — $61,990 60
New York $50,420 $35,620 $35,620 — $64,950 1,580
Colorado $47,810 $37,330 $37,330 — $55,160 230
Minnesota $47,610 $42,900 $42,900 — $63,670 170
Washington $47,000 $41,820 $41,820 — $62,030 290
California $46,410 $36,810 $36,810 — $64,020 6,310
Arizona $45,970 $37,360 $37,360 — $58,900 370
Hawaii $43,580 $34,820 $34,820 — $53,460 130
Illinois $42,550 $36,490 $36,490 — $49,840 590
Maine $42,320 $39,260 $39,260 — $50,820 40
Connecticut $42,040 $35,690 $35,690 — $53,770 330
New Hampshire $41,830 $34,890 $34,890 — $50,360 230
Ohio $41,380 $31,570 $31,570 — $58,170 660
Delaware $41,280 $33,280 $33,280 — $49,880 150
District of Columbia $40,810 $38,580 $38,580 — $52,670 190
Utah $40,580 $34,340 $34,340 — $50,000 890
New Jersey $40,530 $36,640 $36,640 — $57,980 400
Montana $40,040 $37,060 $37,060 — $47,790 100
Massachusetts $39,760 $37,210 $37,210 — $54,820 910
Rhode Island $39,400 $35,930 $35,930 — $48,670 50
Oklahoma $38,840 $30,490 $30,490 — $44,020 130
Virginia $38,790 $27,870 $27,870 — $47,530 460
Wisconsin $38,750 $33,640 $33,640 — $45,770 410
Nebraska $37,760 $36,170 $36,170 — $47,090 100
Nevada $37,630 $32,390 $32,390 — $48,340 370
New Mexico $37,580 $35,820 $35,820 — $43,030 100
South Carolina $36,770 $27,630 $27,630 — $39,080 450
Michigan $36,420 $30,730 $30,730 — $39,680 3,060
Missouri $36,100 $29,560 $29,560 — $43,510 290
North Dakota $35,890 $28,110 $28,110 — $38,900 90
Iowa $35,220 $25,760 $25,760 — $40,660 350
West Virginia $35,210 $26,450 $26,450 — $37,100 260
Kansas $35,060 $32,600 $32,600 — $43,060 140
Florida $34,740 $31,500 $31,500 — $39,540 2,420
Georgia $34,240 $24,810 $24,810 — $62,870 490
Pennsylvania $34,090 $29,810 $29,810 — $45,360 2,300
Maryland $33,710 $32,290 $32,290 — $43,070 1,670
Idaho $32,620 $28,960 $28,960 — $50,450 170
Arkansas $31,900 $27,040 $27,040 — $41,090 210
Indiana $31,660 $27,570 $27,570 — $45,820 690
North Carolina $31,010 $25,340 $25,340 — $41,260 1,300
Texas $30,280 $23,940 $23,940 — $47,800 1,360
Kentucky $28,970 $22,580 $22,580 — $38,250 430
Louisiana $28,860 $20,800 $20,800 — $36,590 190
Mississippi $28,690 $22,990 $22,990 — $37,790 120

No estimate is published for 1 states: the survey withholds a figure when too few employers report it. Nothing has been filled in for them.

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.

Dietetic Technicians$37,640
Veterinary technologists and technicians$47,380+$9,740 Pharmacy technicians$45,750+$8,110 Ophthalmic Medical Technicians$45,570+$7,930 Psychiatric Technicians$45,130+$7,490

Place 729 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 7% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 727 Cooks, All Other $37,690
  2. 728 Pharmacy Aides $37,680
  3. 729 Dietetic Technicians $37,640
  4. 730 Gambling Cage Workers $37,580
  5. 731 Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria $37,450

Resumes for dietetic technicians

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  • Observed and monitored patient food intake and body weight, and report changes, progress, and dietary problems to dietician.
  • Conducted nutritional assessments of individuals, including obtaining and evaluating individuals' dietary histories, to plan nutritional programs.
  • Prepared a major meal, following recipes and determining group food quantities.

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Dietetic technician pay rate, hourly to annual

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Questions people ask most

What is a dietetic technician’s yearly income?

A dietetic technician makes a median of $37,640 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $33,880 and $45,750.

What is a dietetic technician’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $18.09 an hour; the average is $40,630 a year.

What is the starting pay for a dietetic technician?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $33,880 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $29,720.

Which state pays dietetic technicians the most?

Oregon, with a median of $54,670 a year.

How many people work as dietetic technicians?

About 31,560 in the United States — number 729 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays nearly the same

Median pay within $250 of what dietetic technicians earn — $37,640 a year — but not always the same spread.

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