Pay
Phlebotomist salary
Phlebotomist salary in national statistics is a median, not an offer letter. Half of workers earned less than that figure and half earned more.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a median pay of $43,660 a year ($20.99 an hour) for phlebotomists in May 2024, about 139,700 jobs, and employment growth of 6 percent from 2024 to 2034, with roughly 18,400 openings a year. Pay is higher in some outpatient and laboratory settings and lower in others. Local wages are not the national median.
The lowest 10 percent earned less than $34,860 and the highest 10 percent earned more than $57,750, on the same national table. Setting, shift, and city move a wage more than the name of the school does. Outpatient and laboratory employers are not interchangeable with every hospital scale.
Use the median to sanity-check tuition. A program that costs as much as a year of the median wage is a different decision from a program that costs a few weeks of it. The school card’s published tuition, when present, is the number to put next to this page.
States and territories
- Alabama 11
- Alaska 3
- Arizona 32
- Arkansas 31
- California 305
- Colorado 22
- Connecticut 22
- Delaware 8
- Florida 172
- Georgia 54
- Guam 1
- Hawaii 1
- Idaho 7
- Illinois 64
- Indiana 64
- Iowa 12
- Kansas 13
- Kentucky 21
- Louisiana 58
- Maine 14
- Maryland 13
- Massachusetts 22
- Michigan 63
- Minnesota 20
- Mississippi 15
- Missouri 30
- Montana 8
- Nebraska 4
- Nevada 17
- New Hampshire 10
- New Jersey 18
- New Mexico 16
- New York 82
- North Carolina 62
- North Dakota 2
- Ohio 133
- Oklahoma 10
- Oregon 14
- Pennsylvania 36
- Rhode Island 4
- South Carolina 16
- South Dakota 3
- Tennessee 33
- Texas 170
- U.S. Virgin Islands 3
- Utah 15
- Vermont 1
- Virginia 40
- Washington 34
- West Virginia 14
- Wisconsin 20
- Wyoming 4
Questions
Will certification raise my pay?
It can make you eligible for jobs that require it. It does not, by itself, change a wage scale. The employer’s scale does that.
Where do these numbers come from?
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook page for phlebotomists, reflecting May 2024 pay and 2024–2034 projections.