For a state-by-state breakdown, visit our guide to medical billing and coding salaries by state. In general, though, the median yearly salary for medical records technicians and health information technicians as of May 2012 was $34,160, according to the BLS.
The median household income in the US is $50,502. This is some extremely useful data given that it is exploring over 114 million US households. If you want to know how most Americans are living this is a good figure to base your assumptions.
Ohio ranks below the national average for both weekly pay and wage growth, according to U.S. Labor Department data released Thursday. Ohio tied with North Carolina, ranking 29th among 50 states in wage growth for the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with a year earlier. The average weekly wage in the United States was $1,000, a 4.7 percent increase. In Ohio, average wages ($887) increased only 3.6 percent. North Dakota, at 8.4 percent, had the highest wage growth nationally, followed by California at 7.8 percent and New York at 6.9 percent.