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.
Additional Careers. Additional occupations associated with behavioral science include human resource assistants and health educators. The respective average salaries of these occupations were $38,340 and $53,100 in May 2012, according to the BLS. Federal government was the top employer of human resources assistants and offered them an average wage of $42,500.