Patient Navigator Salary Calculator

1. Choose hourly rate or annual salary, then enter your base pay, regular hours and weeks per year.
2. Add your own differential pay, overtime hours and bonus or stipend. 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 patient navigator paid $24.00 an hour for 40 hours a week. That is $49,920.00 a year, about the 48th percentile for the BLS group health technologists and technicians, all other. BLS publishes no wage figure for patient navigators alone.

A patient navigator salary is the gross pay a patient navigator earns in a year, before tax. It is base pay plus any differential, overtime or bonus. Job titles vary, so the first task is to know which official group your job falls in.

BLS does not survey patient navigators as a separate occupation. O*NET, the occupation database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, lists Patient Navigator as a reported job title for Patient Representatives. It describes that occupation in one line: assist patients in obtaining services, understanding policies and making health care decisions. BLS collects its wages inside code 29-2099, a catch-all group.

O*NET lists these tasks for the occupation: coordinate communication between patients, families and staff, interview patients to identify problems with care, keep up with community resources, and refer patients to services.

Some navigators are registered nurses. A job that requires a nursing licence belongs with registered nurses, so use the registered nurse salary calculator for it. All facts were read on 2026-10-02. This tool 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 differential pay. Dollars per hour x share of hours x regular hours x weeks.
3. Add overtime. Overtime hours per week x base rate x multiplier x weeks.
4. Add the bonus or stipend. The yearly dollar amount you enter.
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, which includes patient representatives.

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 patient navigators.

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 patient navigator earns $52,000 a year for a 40-hour week. Her clinic adds $1.25 an hour because she works in two languages. She averages 1 paid overtime hour a week and gets a $1,000 yearly bonus. These are example figures, not typical rates. A health system offers $57,000.

Her extras add $5,550.00 a year. The new offer raises base pay by $5,000.00, which is $550.00 less than those extras. She should ask whether the new job pays the same extras. The percentile ranks her base rate among all workers in the catch-all group, not among patient navigators.

Which Official Group the Job Is In

The title covers different jobs. O*NET puts a lay patient navigator with patient representatives. It lists Community Navigator as a title of community health workers. A nurse navigator is a registered nurse. Each group has its own wage table, so check your job description first.

Paid Hours

Part-time posts are priced by the hour. At $26.00 an hour, 30 hours a week pays $40,560.00 a year. The same rate at 40 hours pays $54,080.00. The salary to hourly calculator shows this conversion on its own.

Differential Pay

A differential is a fixed amount added to each hour it applies to. At $1.25 on every hour of a 40-hour week it adds $2,600.00 a year. No official source gives a standard amount, so the field takes your own figure.

Overtime

Paid overtime is priced at your base rate times a multiplier. One hour a week at $25.00 and 1.5 adds $1,950.00 a year. The overtime pay calculator works on overtime alone.

The Catch-All Group

Code 29-2099 mixes patient representatives with technicians in other fields. Its 10th percentile is $18.36 an hour and its 90th is $40.99. Read your percentile as a rough guide.

The two official groups closest to navigation work have similar medians. The catch-all group that holds patient representatives had a median of $24.18 an hour. Community health workers had $24.93, which is $0.75 more.

Median wages for 2025 as shown by O*NET OnLine from BLS data. Read on 2026-10-02. The calculator compares against the first row only.

Where the Catch-All Group Works

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 patient navigators.

Comparing a Clinic Offer with a Health System Offer

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

Turning a Salary into an Hourly Rate

If your post quotes a yearly salary, enter it with your real weekly hours to see the rate per hour.

Pricing a Part-Time Post

Set the hours and weeks you will be paid. The annual figure then matches your schedule, and the percentile still uses your hourly rate.

Planning a Budget

The result is gross pay. Read the gross vs net income guide before you plan spending from it.

1. Reading the BLS Figure as a Patient Navigator Wage

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

2. Using This Table for a Nurse Navigator Job

A post that requires a nursing licence is a registered nurse job. Its pay belongs in the registered nurse wage table.

3. Entering Mileage Refunds as Pay

An expense refund is not a wage. Leave it out of the bonus or stipend field.

4. Comparing a 30-Hour Year with the BLS Annual Wage

BLS annual wages assume 2,080 hours. Compare hourly rates, or use the full-time equivalent row.

5. Adding a Fixed Percent for Oncology or Benefits

The old tool on this page added 18% for oncology work and 30% for benefits. No official source gives those percents. This page reports gross pay from your own figures.

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 patient navigators.

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

BLS does not publish a wage for patient navigators alone. O*NET files the title under patient representatives, inside the BLS group health technologists and technicians, all other. That group had a median wage of $24.18 an hour, or $50,290 a year, in May 2025.

BLS surveys pay by occupation code, and patient navigators have no code of their own. The title is spread across groups: patient representatives, community health workers and registered nurses.

The 10th percentile wage for health technologists and technicians, all other, was $18.36 an hour in May 2025. The 75th percentile was $30.93 and the 90th was $40.99.

They are counted in different groups. A navigator employed as a registered nurse is in the registered nurse wage table, not in the catch-all group used on this page.

The official medians are close. Community health workers had a median of $24.93 an hour in the 2025 data. The catch-all group that holds patient representatives had $24.18.

It excludes overtime pay, shift differentials and nonproduction bonuses. This tool adds those to your annual total but leaves them out of the percentile.

Divide the salary by paid hours in the year. A $52,000 salary over 2,080 hours is $25.00 an hour.

It varies by employer. In the O*NET survey for patient representatives, 58 percent of workers said new hires need a bachelor degree and 23 percent said an associate degree.

One voluntary credential is the Board Certified Patient Advocate, or BCPA, from the Patient Advocate Certification Board. O*NET lists it among the job titles reported for patient representatives.

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.)
• O*NET OnLine: 29-2099.08 Patient Representatives (Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor. Job titles, tasks, education and 2025 median wage. Read 2026-10-02.)
• O*NET OnLine: 21-1094.00 Community Health Workers (Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor. Job titles and 2025 median wage. 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.)
• Patient Advocate Certification Board (Certifying body for the Board Certified Patient Advocate credential. Read 2026-10-02.)