Dialysis Technician Salary Calculator

1. Choose hourly rate or annual salary, then enter your base pay, regular hours and weeks per year.
2. Add your own overtime hours, certification pay and shift differential. Leave any of them blank.
3. Read your annual gross pay, the pay-period amounts and where your rate sits in the BLS wage table for the BLS group health technologists and technicians, all other.

What each result tells you:

The first preset is an example, not a typical wage. It shows a dialysis technician paid $22.00 an hour for 40 hours a week. That is $45,760.00 a year, about the 31st percentile for the BLS group health technologists and technicians, all other. BLS publishes no wage figure for dialysis technicians alone.

A dialysis technician salary is the gross pay a patient care dialysis technician earns in a year, before tax. Most of it is an hourly base rate times paid hours. The rest is overtime and any certification pay or shift differential.

BLS does not survey dialysis technicians as a separate occupation. Its classification puts them in code 29-2099, health technologists and technicians, all other. That code is a catch-all. BLS names a dialysis technician, an EEG technologist and a polysomnograph technician as examples. So the wage table on this page mixes several jobs.

The federal rule applies to dialysis facilities in the Medicare program. It accepts a state certification program or a national one. The training must cover dialysis principles, patient care, procedures, complications, water treatment, infection control and safety.

All facts were read on 2026-10-02. The tool is for technicians and trainees checking an offer or a schedule. It is not a pay quote from any employer.

The calculator turns your pay into a yearly total, then places your straight-time rate in the BLS wage distribution for the BLS group health technologists and technicians, all other.

1. Convert. An hourly rate is multiplied by regular hours and weeks. A salary is divided by them to get pay per hour.
2. Add overtime. Overtime hours per week x base rate x multiplier x weeks.
3. Add certification pay. Dollars per hour x regular hours x weeks.
4. Add the shift differential. Dollars per hour x share of hours x regular hours x weeks.
5. Find the band. Your base hourly rate is checked against the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentile wages.
6. Interpolate. W1 and W2 are the two BLS wages around your rate. P1 and P2 are their percentiles.
7. Measure the gap. Your rate minus the median, then divided by the median.

The table below is the BLS wage table the tool uses. It covers a catch-all group of health technologists and technicians, not dialysis technicians alone.

Source: BLS OEWS, national estimates, May 2025. Read on 2026-10-02. This table covers the whole occupation group. BLS publishes no separate wage figure for dialysis technicians.

BLS annual wages equal the hourly wage times 2,080 hours. That is 40 hours for 52 weeks. The comparison uses hourly pay so that part-time and long-shift schedules are judged fairly.

A certified technician earns a base rate of $23.50 an hour. He is scheduled for 36 regular hours a week and averages 4 overtime hours at time and a half. His clinic pays $1.00 an hour for his credential. A third of his hours earn a $1.50 early-shift differential. These are example figures, not typical rates. A hospital offers $25.00 an hour.

His extras add $10,130.64 a year. Overtime is the largest part. The hospital rate raises base pay by $2,808.00 a year and moves him above the group median of $24.18. The percentile ranks his base rate among all workers in the catch-all group, not among dialysis technicians.

Overtime Hours

Overtime changes yearly pay faster than any other field in this tool. One overtime hour a week at $23.50 and time and a half adds $1,833.00 a year. Enter the hours you are paid for, not the hours you are scheduled. The overtime pay calculator works on overtime alone.

Certification Pay

Some employers add a fixed amount per hour for a credential. One dollar an hour on 36 hours a week is $1,872.00 a year. No official source gives a standard amount, so the field takes your own figure.

Shift Differential

A differential applies only to some hours. The share field handles that. A $1.50 differential on a third of 36 weekly hours adds $926.64 a year.

Regular Hours and Weeks

A 36-hour week has 1,872 paid hours a year. A 40-hour week has 2,080. At the same rate the shorter week pays 10% less. The salary to hourly calculator shows that conversion on its own.

The Catch-All Group

Because 29-2099 mixes several jobs, its wage range is wide. The 10th percentile is $18.36 an hour and the 90th is $40.99. Read your percentile as a rough guide.

BLS compares pay by industry for the whole catch-all group. Hospitals employ 62,520 of its 182,610 workers. Outpatient care centers employ 50,750. Together that is 62.0% of the group.

The five industries that employ the most health technologists and technicians, all other. Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025. Read on 2026-10-02.

These counts cover every job in the group. BLS does not say how many of them are dialysis technicians.

Mean vs Median

The group mean is $28.23 an hour and the median is $24.18. The mean is $4.05 higher. A smaller number of high wages pulls the mean up, so the median is the better midpoint.

Hourly Rate vs Annual Pay

Two technicians on the same rate can earn very different yearly pay. Hours, overtime and extras explain the gap. Compare base rates first, then compare annual gross pay.

Comparing a Clinic Offer with a Hospital Offer

Enter your current rate and extras. Type the other base rate as the second offer. The tool shows both percentiles and the yearly base difference.

Seeing What a Credential Adds

Type the certification pay your employer has quoted. The extra pay row shows its yearly value before tax.

Pricing an Extra Shift

Raise the overtime hours by the length of the shift and read the change in annual gross pay.

Planning a Budget

The result is gross pay. Read the gross vs net income guide before you plan spending from it. The salary calculator converts any pay figure without the BLS table.

1. Reading the BLS Figure as a Dialysis Wage

The median of $50,290 covers a catch-all group of 182,610 workers. BLS does not split out dialysis technicians.

2. Entering Overtime Pay Inside the Base Rate

BLS wages exclude overtime. A base rate inflated by overtime will show a percentile that is too high.

3. Counting Certification Pay Twice

If your quoted rate already includes the credential, leave the certification field blank.

4. Setting the Differential Share to 100

A differential that applies to one shift in three should have a share near 33. A blank share means every hour.

5. Using a Flat Percent for Certification

The old tool on this page added a fixed 12% for certification and set percents for shifts and states. No official source gives those percents. Use your own dollar rates.

The conversion is exact arithmetic. The percentile is an estimate, because BLS publishes only five points of the wage distribution and the table covers a broader group than dialysis technicians.

BLS wages are straight-time gross pay. They exclude overtime pay, shift differentials and nonproduction bonuses. This tool keeps overtime, certification pay and differentials out of the comparison and shows them in the annual total.

BLS does not publish a wage for dialysis technicians alone. It counts them in the group health technologists and technicians, all other. That group had a median wage of $24.18 an hour in May 2025.

BLS surveys pay by occupation code, and dialysis technicians have no code of their own. The 2018 classification lists a dialysis technician as an example of code 29-2099, a catch-all for health technologists and technicians.

The 10th percentile annual wage for health technologists and technicians, all other, was $38,180 in May 2025. The median was $50,290 and the 90th percentile was $85,270.

No. BLS wages are straight-time gross pay. They exclude overtime pay and shift differentials. This tool adds your overtime to the annual total but leaves it out of the percentile.

Multiply overtime hours by your base rate and the overtime multiplier. Four hours a week at $23.50 and 1.5 is $141.00 a week, or $7,332.00 a year.

Yes, in facilities covered by the federal rule. Patient care dialysis technicians must be certified under a state or national program within 18 months of being hired.

CCHT is the Certified Clinical Hemodialysis Technician credential from the Nephrology Nursing Certification Commission. Its exam has 150 questions and a 3-hour limit. Applicants need a high school diploma and a completed training program.

The commission says recertification needs 3,000 hours of work as a dialysis technician in the 3-year certification period. It also needs 30 hours of nephrology continuing education.

Multiply the hourly rate by paid hours per week and paid weeks per year. At $22.00 an hour, a 2,080-hour year pays $45,760.00 before tax.

No. The calculation runs in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server. The Save button stores a result only on your own device.

• BLS OEWS Profiles, May 2025 national estimates (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Select 29-2099 Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other. Read 2026-10-02.)
• BLS 2018 Standard Occupational Classification definitions (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Lists a dialysis technician as an example of 29-2099. Read 2026-10-02.)
• 42 CFR 494.140, personnel qualifications for dialysis facilities (Electronic Code of Federal Regulations. Schooling, training and the 18-month certification rule for patient care dialysis technicians. Read 2026-10-02.)
• NNCC: Certified Clinical Hemodialysis Technician (Nephrology Nursing Certification Commission. Exam format, eligibility and recertification. Read 2026-10-02.)
• BLS technical notes for the May 2025 OEWS estimates (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Defines the wage: straight-time gross pay, 2,080-hour year. Read 2026-10-02.)