Careers A-Z

Your health care career search starts here. Check out details about more than 40 jobs in health care and medicine, with trusted information from Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science.

Career	Work type	Median salary	Higher education required
Athletic trainer	Patient care	$50,000	4-6 years
Audiologist	Patient care	$81,000	8 years
Cardiac sonographer	Patient care	$75,000	2-6 years
Cardiovascular invasive specialist	Patient care	$59,000	1-3 years
Cardiovascular perfusionist	Patient care	$124,000	4-6 years
Central service technician	Support and administration	$37,000	1-4 years
Child life specialist	Patient care	$60,000	4-6 years
Cytogenetic technologist	Laboratory	$67,000	4-5 years
Cytotechnologist	Laboratory	$74,000	4-5 years
Diagnostic medical sonographer	Patient care	$76,000	2-6 years
Dietitian	Patient care	$63,000	4 years
Emergency medicine paramedic	Patient care	$37,000	1-2 years
Genetic counselor	Patient care	$86,000	6 years
Health information manager	Support and administration	$44,000	2-4 years
Hemodialysis technician	Patient care	$41,000	Less than 1 year
Histology technician	Laboratory	$54,000	1-2 years
Hospital chaplain	Patient care	$49,000	4-6 years
Medical laboratory scientist	Laboratory	$54,000	2-4 years
Medical massage therapist	Patient care	$44,000	1 year
Medical physicist	Patient care	$129,000	6-8 years
Medical social worker	Patient care	$58,000	4-6 years
Medical speech-language pathologist	Patient care	$80,000	6-8 years
Molecular genetics technologist	Laboratory	$54,000	4-6 years
Neurodiagnostic technologist	Patient care	$59,000	1-2 years
Nuclear medicine technologist	Patient care	$79,000	2-4 years
Nurse	Patient care	$75,000	1-8 years
Nurse anesthetist	Patient care	$183,000	6-8 years
Nurse midwife	Patient care	$112,000	6-8 years
Nurse practitioner	Patient care	$112,000	6-8 years
Occupational therapist	Patient care	$86,000	6-8 years
Orthoptist	Patient care	$82,000	4-6 years
Pathologists' assistant	Laboratory	$86,000	6-8 years
Perioperative nurse	Patient care	$79,000	4-6 years
Pharmacist	Patient care	$129,000	6-8 years
Pharmacy technician	Patient care	$35,000	0-2 years
Phlebotomy technician	Patient care	$36,000	Less than 1 year
Physical therapist	Patient care	$91,000	6-8 years
Physician assistant	Patient care	$115,000	6-7 years
Positron emission tomography technologist	Patient care	$79,000	2-4 years
Radiation therapist	Patient care	$87,000	2-4 years
Radiologic technologist	Patient care	$64,000	2-4 years
Recreational therapist	Patient care	$48,000	2-4 years
Respiratory therapist	Patient care	$63,000	2-4 years
Surgical first assistant	Patient care	$52,000	2-6 years
Surgical technologist	Patient care	$50,000	1-2 years

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