Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Medical Records Technician: $59K median posted pay.
From 46 salary bands employers posted on 48 open medical records technician roles in healthcare. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
No level is named often enough in these postings to build a ladder.
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Veterans Health Administration | 20 | — |
| Indian Health Service | 15 | — |
| Military Treatment Facilities under DHA | 8 | — |
| Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System | 1 | — |
| Mainegeneral | 1 | — |
| Defense Health Agency | 1 | — |
| Quality, Compassionate Care For All | 1 | — |
| Highmark Health | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open medical records technician roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Billing | 8 | — |
| Customer Service | 2 | — |
| Electronic Health Records | 2 | — |
| HIPAA Compliance | 2 | — |
| Medical Terminology | 2 | — |
| Background Screening | 1 | — |
| Patient Charting | 1 | — |
| Data Entry | 1 | — |
| Critical Care | 1 | — |
| Case Management | 1 | — |
Where the work is
13% of these roles are remote.
- Remote13%6 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site69%33 roles
- Not stated19%9 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 48 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 46 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Medical Records Technician (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in healthcare, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.