

“In order to remain competitive in a market where there are multiple positions open for any one technologist available, hospitals and clinics have to be creative in their pay practices. Brown, MHA, MT(ASCP), LSSGB, Director of Laboratory and Pathology Services at Mary Lanning Healthcare in Hastings, NE. “While compensation is getting better over the past couple of years, for our region specifically, there is much work to be done,” said Terri M. The average expected base salary for all lab professionals in 2021 was far higher than last year, at $92,500 compared with $72,500.

While men still report the highest average salary (at $103,233), the average salary for female lab professionals grew slightly more than that of their male colleagues from 2020 to 2021, with females earning $4,509 more on average, and males earning $3,454 more. lab professionals on compensation, job security and satisfaction, education and training, changing roles and responsibilities, technology adoption, and how COVID-19 has impacted their teams and operations over the past year.Īverage compensation of laboratory professionals across the board rose $4,044, from $93,844 in 2020 to $97,888 in 2021. We present key findings from the annual survey, as well as insights from U.S. According to the results of Medical Laboratory Observer’s 2021 annual salary survey of laboratory professionals, average salary has increased and job security remains high, but the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the profession’s staff shortages, with 80 percent of respondents noting shortages having a “moderate to large impact” on operational efficiency.
