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.
The average median income is exactly in the middle of the range of incomes. Half of Americans make more and the other half make less. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that the average median income was $56,516 per household in 2015. A household is any group of people who live together.