The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) most recent occupational data put clinical laboratory technician and technologist employment at over 337,700 as of May 2024. Nearly 70,000 clinical lab tech positions were in the four-state Southwestern U.S. region at that time. For clinical lab techs, the Southwestern U.S. was a poor region in terms of pay relative to the national average. The clinical lab tech annual mean wage level in all four Southwestern states lagged the national average, and two states in the region, Oklahoma and New Mexico, ranked among the ten worst in the nation for clinical lab tech annual mean wages. A further review of BLS data from May 2024 yielded the following state-level details about clinical lab tech pay in the Southwestern U.S.:
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Clinical Lab Tech Pay in the Southwestern U.S. |
| State | # Employed | Annual Mean Wages | Wage Rank* |
| AZ | 6,500 | $66,740 | 19th |
| NM | 1,840 | $53,670 | 48th |
| OK | 4,520 | $57,210 | 41st |
| TX | 29,910 | $59,030 | 38th |
| U.S. | 337,740 | $65,012 | ------- |
(*) annual mean wage ranking among the 50 states
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OES. Data extracted on April 17, 2025
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