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Radiologist: what the job is, what it pays, and how to get hired.

The work, the skills that matter, the tools in demand and the pay range, from U.S. government data, plus every TryHired page for the role.

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Updated Oct 24, 2026 · Data: BLS OEWS May 2025 · O*NET 31.0
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Median percentile pay

Half of radiologists earn more than this and half earn less.

Annual
$420,860
Hourly
$202.34
Source
BLS May 2025
Quick answer

Radiologists diagnose and treat diseases and injuries using medical imaging techniques, such as x rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear medicine, and ultrasounds. The median pay is $420,860 a year ($202.34 an hour) (BLS, May 2025). The most commonly reported education requirement is post-doctoral training (58% of workers surveyed by O*NET).

Median pay
$420,860
BLS May 2025
Employed in the U.S.
26,770
BLS May 2025
Preparation
Job Zone 5 of 5
extensive preparation
Most common education
Post-Doctoral Training
58% of workers
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The work

What radiologists do day to day

Data Core tasks rated most important by workers in the role (O*NET).

  1. Prepare comprehensive interpretive reports of findings.
  2. Document the performance, interpretation, or outcomes of all procedures performed.
  3. Communicate examination results or diagnostic information to referring physicians, patients, or families.
  4. Obtain patients' histories from electronic records, patient interviews, dictated reports, or by communicating with referring clinicians.
  5. Review or transmit images and information using picture archiving or communications systems.
  6. Confer with medical professionals regarding image-based diagnoses.
  7. Recognize or treat complications during and after procedures, including blood pressure problems, pain, oversedation, or bleeding.
  8. Develop or monitor procedures to ensure adequate quality control of images.
Skills that matter

Ranked by importance to the job

Data O*NET importance ratings. The first three are core.

Reading ComprehensioncoreActive ListeningcoreSpeakingcoreJudgment and Decision MakingWritingCritical ThinkingSocial PerceptivenessComplex Problem SolvingMonitoring

Knowledge areas: Medicine and Dentistry, Biology, English Language, Computers and Electronics, Education and Training, Customer and Personal Service.

Tools and technology

Software radiologists use

Data Examples reported for the role; employer demand flags from O*NET.

  • Epic SystemsMedical softwareIn demand
  • MEDITECH softwareMedical softwareHot technology
  • eClinicalWorks EHR softwareMedical softwareHot technology
  • ACOM Solutions RAPID EMRMedical software
  • Advanced Data Systems MedicsRisMedical software
  • Allscripts PMMedical software
  • Allscripts Professional EHRMedical software
  • Alteer OfficeMedical software
  • Automatic Data Processing AdvancedMD EHRMedical software
  • Avreo Radiology Workflow SolutionsMedical software
  • Benchmark Systems Benchmark Clinical EHRMedical software
  • Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMRMedical software

Also called: Attending Physician, Diagnostic Radiologist, Interventional Neuroradiologist, Interventional Radiologist, Musculoskeletal Specialty Radiologist (MSK Specialty Radiologist), Neuroradiologist.

Method

How this page is built

Tasks, skills, tools, education and related roles come from O*NET 31.0. Pay and employment come from the BLS OEWS May 2025 national estimates. The skill-match score is our calculation: Skill match is the correlation between the two occupations' skill profiles: for each of 35 O*NET skills (10 essential, 25 transferable) we multiply importance by level, subtract the average across all occupations, and correlate the two profiles. 100 means identical shape; 0 or below means unrelated. Only occupations that O*NET itself lists as related are compared.

What this page can't tell you
  • How a specific employer defines the job.
  • Pay for self-employed workers (OEWS covers employees).
  • Your own chances: data describes the occupation, not you.
Sources
  1. O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. TryHired selected, ranked and combined the data; O*NET is not responsible for these pages.
  2. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 estimates (public domain).