Salary for Medical Appliance Technicians
Also known as: Arch-Support Maker, Brace Maker, Hearing Aid Repair Technician, Orthopaedic Technician, Orthopaedic Technologist, Orthotic Fabricator Technician, Orthotic Finish Grinding Technician, Orthotics Fitter, Orthotics Technician, Prosthetics Fabrication Technician
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Medical appliance technicians are required to construct, assemble, test and repair medical devices such as braces, joints and other surgical and medical appliances. This job is not dangerous, but it does require employees to stand or bend for long periods. Vocational training or related work experience is almost always necessary to be considered for this job. Most of the time, an employer will require up to two years of formal on-site job training as well.A Medical Appliance Technician can receive salaries ranging between $27,100 - $69,850 based on education and tenure levels. can get a compensation of fourty-five thousand six hundred and thirty dollars per year.
receive the highest salary in Illinois, where they receive pay levels, on average, of about $55,900. People in this career are compensated at the highest average salary in Public Administration, where they receive average wages of $57,360.
The annual compensation for this career has gone up since 2004. Salaries have increased by an average of 44.30 percent nationwide in that time.
Medical Appliance Technicians tend to make the most in the following industries:
In general, they earn less within the industries below:
