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Salary · Ultrasound Tech · Nebraska · BLS OEWS May 2025

Ultrasound Tech salary in Nebraska: $82,670 median.

Pay for ultrasound techs across Nebraska at every point of the range, against the U.S., the states it borders and the state's metro areas.

Updated Oct 27, 2026 · Data: BLS OEWS May 2025 · state estimates
Annual wage range · Nebraska · BLS May 2025
$82,670median in Nebraska

Quick answer

Ultrasound Techs in Nebraska earned a median annual wage of $82,670 in May 2025, compared with $96,590 nationally, according to the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey (SOC 29-2032). That is 14% below the U.S. median; the middle half of Nebraska workers in this occupation earned between $78,540 and $99,370.

Nebraska median
$82,670
$39.74 an hour
U.S. median
$96,590
-14% in Nebraska
Rank, 50 states + DC
43 of 51
by median pay
Employed in Nebraska
780
location quotient 1.32

Advice For a pay conversation in Nebraska, the state median ($82,670) is the sourced middle of the market; the 25th–75th percentile band ($78,540–$99,370) is where half of the state's workers in this occupation fall. Experience, employer, metro and specialty move individual offers within and beyond that band.

Pay ladder

Nebraska vs the U.S. at every point of the range

Data Annual wages at five points of the pay distribution, SOC 29-2032, BLS May 2025.

Annual wage percentiles, Nebraska and the United States
Point in the pay rangeNebraskaUnited StatesDifference
10th percentile$64,590$67,820-5%
25th percentile$78,540$80,430-2%
Median$82,670$96,590-14%
75th percentile$99,370$106,930-7%
90th percentile$105,320$129,370-19%

Data The local difference is larger at the top of the range than at the bottom (-5% at the 10th percentile, -19% at the 90th). Locally, the 90th-percentile wage is 1.63 times the 10th-percentile wage, versus 1.91 times nationally, so pay is less spread out than it is nationally.

Concentration

How common the job is in Nebraska

Data BLS location quotient: the occupation's share of state employment divided by its share of U.S. employment.

Data The BLS location quotient for this occupation in Nebraska is 1.32, so it is more concentrated than nationally (1.00 = the same share as nationally). That is about 0.8 jobs per 1,000 jobs in the state.

Bordering states

Nebraska vs the states it borders

Data Same occupation, same BLS release. A higher median elsewhere is not a job offer; cost of living differs.

Median annual wage and employment, Nebraska and bordering states
StateMedian annual wagevs NebraskaEmployment
Colorado$108,410+31%1,430
Wyoming$100,650+22%90
Missouri$100,130+21%1,930
Kansas$96,310+16%670
Iowa$86,480+5%740
Nebraska$82,670780
South Dakota$80,820-2%370
Top-paying states

Where ultrasound techs earn the highest medians

Data Highest state medians among the 50 states and DC, BLS May 2025. Nebraska ranks 43.

  1. California$128,530
  2. Hawaii$124,430
  3. Washington$121,340
  4. Oregon$120,220
  5. District of Columbia$112,020

See every state on the national Ultrasound Tech salary page.

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Method

How this page is built

BLS OEWS May 2025 state estimates for Nebraska and national estimates for SOC 29-2032 (Diagnostic Medical Sonographers). The pay ladder compares the same five published percentiles; the difference column is the local value minus the U.S. value, divided by the U.S. value. Ranks compare published state medians across the 50 states and DC. Employment counts people working in the occupation (excluding the self-employed), not job openings. BLS publishes sampling error for these estimates: the employment estimate has a relative standard error of 7.4%. Lower is more precise; BLS does not publish a standard error for the median itself. Searches this page answers include “sonographer salary in nebraska” (Ahrefs, U.S.).

What this page can't tell you
  • Cost of living: wages are not adjusted for local prices.
  • Pay at a specific employer, in one city, or for self-employed workers.
  • Local outlook: BLS projections are national.
Sources
  1. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 state and national estimates (2018 SOC), public domain.
  2. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 estimates (public domain).

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