For a state-by-state breakdown, visit our guide to medical billing and coding salaries by state. In general, though, the median yearly salary for medical records technicians and health information technicians as of May 2012 was $34,160, according to the BLS.
The median household income in the US is $50,502. This is some extremely useful data given that it is exploring over 114 million US households. If you want to know how most Americans are living this is a good figure to base your assumptions.
Median Wages by State Median and averages wages vary significantly by state. These states reported the highest median hourly wages for all occupations as of May 2016: Alaska: $22.68 ; Massachusetts: $22.45 ; Connecticut: $21.68 ; Washington: $20.87 ; Maryland: $20.68 ; New York: $20.56 ; New Jersey: $20.17 ; California: $19.67 ; Minnesota: $19.28 ; Hawaii: $19.24 ; Federal wage statistics suggest hourly wages in most states have climbed in recent years as the economy recovered. But over the longer term, median wages generally haven't increased much.