The Department announced a Final Rule focused primarily on updating the salary and compensation levels needed for Executive, Administrative and Professional workers to be exempt. For more information, see http://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/final2016/. Wage and Hour Division (WHD)
Duties. A behavioral health technician is expected to understand and implement individual treatment plans, record patient behavior and provide a safe, supportive environment for the patients. Technicians may provide and record patient medications and assisting in daily activities.
Over a third of the 69,840 behavioral health technicians earned averages of $34,170 per year, or $16.43 per hour, by working in psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals, their largest employers. The highest salaries came from specialty hospitals that did not include psychiatry and substance abuse.