American Society for Clinical Pathology's 2010 Wage Survey of US Clinical Laboratories

Nationally, laboratories pay the highest wages for staff and supervisory level PAs, CTs, SBBs, and MT/MLS/CLSs. Wages are lowest for LA and PBT staff level positions. Pay rates by position are highest in hospitals and reference laboratories for most of the laboratory positions surveyed. (Table 4) Reference laboratories also provide the highest rates for PBTs, HTLs, and HTs compared to the other facilities in the survey. Salaries for staff and supervisory/ managerial level CTs were comparable between hospitals and reference laboratories. Where the data allowed for comparisons between certification, wages tend to be higher for certified laboratory personnel regardless of position type or level. This differential was most noticeable for staff level laboratory personnel, ranging from at least 10 percent more for medical technologists and medical laboratory technicians to as much as 14.3 percent more for histotechnicians.