According to the American Medical Association the average Radiologist Assistant Salary or X-Ray Technician as some may refer to it in the United States is approximately just right at about $103,000 with the lowest average Radiology Assistant Salary coming in at just over $90,000 and the high average salaries hitting well over $112,000.
There is no doubt about it that your Radiologist Assistant Salary today sure is a whole lot more than it was just 10 years ago. Yes, we know that everything goes up but this field has seen some truly substantial growth over the last decade. What will this profession hold in the next decade? Will it go up, will it go down? Let’s take a look shall we and see how the Radiology Assistant Salary, X-Ray Technician will play out over the next coming 10 to 20 years.
If you look at the cause of the rise in the Medical profession overall that has been taking off and blooming over this last decade or so the single biggest factor is the aging baby boomer market. The baby boomers are/were the single biggest economic force in the history of the world. They drove the economic boom leading up to about 2005. Whatever their needs were at any one given point as they traveled along their growth cycle were huge industries to get into and supply them.
Now as they begin their aging cycle and their needs start to turn to medical care the medical market bubble they will create will drive a tremendous amount of jobs. This huge portion of our population is retiring and aging. They are now retiring at approximately 18% of their mass or number s per annum (that was taken from merging cumulative data from more than a dozen sources). This is huge news for care givers and anyone who is in any market to provide products or services to the retirement market.
What does this mean for your prospects of having a really high Radiology Assistant Salary for the next coming 20 plus years? Well, it should indicate that your job security overall industry wide should remain at an amazingly high level and you should have little if any challenges with making a really good living for you and your family.
Both the Radiology Assistant Salary, X-Ray Technician and it’s profession should keep pace with the growth of the entire medical industry in this country for quite some time to come. One piece of information that you may wish to consider. With a salary of say over $110,000 think about living on $55,000 per year and saving the rest.
Why? Because it about 40 years that baby boomer population will have died out and the huge bubble they created of medical job prosperity will have its collapsing bubble just like the housing market bubble. This could be the best thing that ever happened to you if you play your cards right. Just save 1/2 of your income and then retire overseas in Spain or Thailand or some other spot you really like. Spend your time living like a King with no worries and enjoy your life. Just a thought…