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.
According to data from the 2000 U.S. Census, the average salary of U.S. workers between the ages of 21 and 64 with a bachelor's degree was $42,877, while those with a master's degree or higher earned an average salary of $55,242.