The Professions in the Field of Health Besides Doctor and Nurse are Also Quite Prosperous
We believe that X-ray and CT scan have become quite familiar for you. However, have you ever heard about radiology tech or radiologist? Well, for this one, you may have never heard about this one. Well, it makes sense, since professions like radiology tech, phlebotomist, and ultrasound technician are not as famous as the other professions in the same field like doctor and nurse. However, even though those professions are not very famous, they still have quite important roles, and of course quite handsome payments for their jobs.
You can take the phlebotomist or phlebotomy technician for example. Even though phlebotomy can also be performed by physicians and assistants of allied health field, only skillful phlebotomist that can collect arterial blood samples from the radial artery of the wrist or from the brachial artery. The average annual salary of phlebotomists in the US is also quite good, which is about $24,000 up to $40,000.
When talking about salary, it seems that ultrasound technician is one of the professions that have relatively high salaries in the field of health. A report says that the average of ultrasound technician wages is about $60,000. As for veteran ultrasound technicians, the wages can even reach $80,000. Amazing, is not it? Especially because those professions are not as famous as doctor and nurse.
January 31, 2012
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