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Medical Interpreters

SOC 27-9099

Provide real-time interpretation between patients and healthcare providers.

The job
Median pay
$60k
$47k to $81k typical range
BLS figure for Interpreters and Translators
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing
+2.0% projected
BLS figure for Interpreters and Translators
Openings a year
6k
BLS figure for Interpreters and Translators
Typical education
Postsecondary cert
Our model
AI displacement risk
Moderate
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
19/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
46th pct
More exposed than 46% of occupations · modeled estimate
Future-proof
47/100

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Key skills

Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Texas6,7800.51.4×$48k
California5,5600.30.9×$71k
Florida4,2000.41.3×$49k
New York3,2400.31.0×$84k
Massachusetts2,2800.61.9×$73k
Arizona2,0700.61.9×$50k
Ohio2,0300.41.1×$61k
North Carolina1,7800.41.1×$50k
Virginia1,6300.41.2×$63k
Georgia1,6000.31.0×$58k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Illinois1,5100.20.7×$55k
Pennsylvania1,4200.20.7×$57k
Wisconsin1,4100.51.4×$63k
Washington1,2500.41.1×$62k
Indiana1,1700.41.1×$48k
Maryland1,1500.41.2×$89k
Minnesota1,0300.31.0×$66k
Michigan9400.20.6×$45k
New Jersey8700.20.6×$59k
Utah8500.51.5×$66k
Colorado8000.30.8×$72k
Tennessee7100.20.7×$51k
Oregon6600.31.0×$66k
Nebraska5700.61.7×$53k
Iowa5600.41.1×$48k
South Carolina5200.20.7×$51k
Kentucky4800.20.7×$54k
Kansas4700.31.0×$48k
Missouri4400.10.5×$57k
New Mexico3600.41.2×$64k
Nevada3200.20.6×$50k
Oklahoma3200.20.6×$49k
Alabama3100.10.4×$46k
Idaho3000.31.1×$66k
Connecticut2800.20.5×$68k
Washington DC2800.41.2×$110k
New Hampshire2400.41.1×$56k
South Dakota2300.51.5×$53k
Arkansas2200.20.5×$52k
Rhode Island2000.41.2×$82k
Alaska1500.51.4×$52k~
North Dakota1300.30.9×$48k
Louisiana1200.10.2×$48k
West Virginia1200.20.5×$44k~
Delaware1100.20.7×$57k~
Maine900.10.4×$63k
Mississippi800.10.2×$57k
Vermont800.30.8×$62k
Wyoming610.20.7×$48k~
Hawaii600.10.3×$42k
Montana600.10.3×$48k

Top metro areas

  1. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX2,530 jobs · $44k median
  2. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ2,520 jobs · $88k median
  3. Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ1,720 jobs · $50k median
  4. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH1,660 jobs · $75k median
  5. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV1,630 jobs · $95k median
  6. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA1,480 jobs · $69k median
  7. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX1,280 jobs · $57k median
  8. Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL1,170 jobs · $49k median

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BLS does not publish this occupation on its own. Pay and outlook here are BLS's figures for Interpreters and Translators (SOC 27-3091), the occupation it is grouped with, so the real figures for this job could sit either side of them. Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.