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Outlook: Overall employment of diagnostic medical sonographers is expected to increase by about 19 percent from 2006 to 2016, which is faster than the average for all occupations.
Pay: The 610 diagnostic medical sonographers in the Seattle-Bellevue-Tacoma area earned a median wage of $77,510 in 2008.
The job: Sonography, or ultrasonography, is the use of sound waves to generate an image for the assessment and diagnosis of various medical conditions. Diagnostic medical sonographers use special equipment to direct nonionizing, high-frequency sound waves into areas of a patient’s body. Sonographers operate the equipment, which collects reflected echoes and forms an image that may be videotaped, transmitted or photographed for interpretation and diagnosis by a physician.
Training/licensing: Sonographers may receive training in hospitals, vocational-technical institutions, colleges and universities.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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This article was originally published in July 2009.
Read more: Health Care , Jobs in Demand
By redmonder on August 7, 2009 2:22 PM
And with Obamacare the sonographers will be earning $25,ooo
By UW on August 12, 2009 8:35 PM
redmonder - please back up your assertion with referenced facts.
By David on August 16, 2009 3:03 PM
Redmonder doesn't have any facts to back it up.
Just more uneducated and unsubstantiated thoughts from those who don't understand the first thing about healthcare policy