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title: "Cardiac Electrophysiology Technologist"
description: "Assists cardiologists in the electrophysiology lab during procedures that map and treat abnormal heart rhythms."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/cardiac-electrophysiology-technologist"
last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Cardiac Electrophysiology Technologist

**Category:** Healthcare Practitioners and Technical · **SOC code:** 29-2031 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 29-2031.00

Assists cardiologists in the electrophysiology lab during procedures that map and treat abnormal heart rhythms.

Also advertised as: EP Technologist; Electrophysiology Specialist; Registered Cardiac Electrophysiology Specialist; RCES; EP Lab Technologist.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $74,310 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $35.73/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $39,000 to $121,350, with the middle half between $47,890 and $98,110
- **Total US employment:** 62,960
- **Typical entry education:** Associate's
- **Preparation required:** Some preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +3.7% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 3,400 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 45/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 62,960 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $39,000 |
| 25th | $47,890 |
| 50th (median) | $74,310 |
| 75th | $98,110 |
| 90th | $121,350 |
| Mean (average) | $76,940 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UT | $113,510 | $114,814 | 1,250 |
| HI | $111,730 | $101,618 | 140 |
| MA | $105,580 | $99,833 | 1,110 |
| RI | $104,000 | $101,682 | 260 |
| ID | $100,100 | $104,823 | 220 |
| DC | $99,380 | $90,427 | 280 |
| OR | $99,240 | $96,013 | 550 |
| CT | $94,940 | $91,632 | 620 |
| CO | $94,190 | $91,400 | 720 |
| NY | $89,570 | $82,996 | 3,540 |
| DE | $87,640 | $87,809 | 290 |
| MD | $86,440 | $82,356 | 970 |
| WY | $84,140 | $90,775 | 60 |
| WA | $83,790 | $78,299 | 1,110 |
| NH | $83,100 | $79,777 | 150 |

37 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 52 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/cardiac-electrophysiology-technologist/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/cardiac-electrophysiology-technologist.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 64,500 in the 2025–2035 base year to 66,900 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 2,400 jobs, or +3.7%. About as fast as average: 3.7% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 3,400 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** Associate's degree (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Some preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** None.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree | 62.9% |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 12.9% |
| High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) | 9.9% |
| Some College Courses | 7.8% |
| First Professional Degree | 3.8% |
| Bachelor's Degree | 2.8% |

## What the work involves

- Set up recording, stimulation, and mapping systems before EP procedures
- Monitor intracardiac electrograms and alert the physician to rhythm changes
- Operate three-dimensional electroanatomic mapping systems
- Run ablation energy consoles under physician direction
- Deliver programmed electrical stimulation protocols
- Assist with pacemaker and defibrillator implants and device programming
- Maintain sterile technique and patient safety during procedures
- Stock and maintain specialized EP lab equipment

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Active Listening — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Science — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Operations Monitoring — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Service Orientation — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Operation and Control — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Instructing — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Customer and Personal Service — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Medicine and Dentistry — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Computers and Electronics — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Education and Training — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Problem Sensitivity — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Near Vision — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Inductive Reasoning — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Realistic (R), Investigative (I), Conventional (C).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| R — Realistic | 5.73 |
| I — Investigative | 5.34 |
| C — Conventional | 4.58 |
| S — Social | 4.42 |
| E — Enterprising | 1.30 |
| A — Artistic | 1.00 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ISTJ | 81.2 |
| ISFJ | 75.8 |
| ISTP | 70.5 |
| ESTJ | 63.5 |
| INTJ | 63.2 |

Best-fitting types: ISTJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Cardiovascular Technologist and Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/cardiovascular-technologist-and-technician) — median $74,310
- [Diagnostic Medical Sonographer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/diagnostic-medical-sonographer) — median $96,590
- [Neurodiagnostic Technologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/neurodiagnostic-technologist) — median $50,290
- [Radiologic Technologist and Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/radiologic-technologist-and-technician) — median $80,110
- [Radiation Therapist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/radiation-therapist) — median $105,310
- [Respiratory Therapist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/respiratory-therapist) — median $82,280
- [Ophthalmic Medical Technologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/ophthalmic-medical-technologist) — median $50,290
- [Nuclear Medicine Technologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/nuclear-medicine-technologist) — median $101,370
- [Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/magnetic-resonance-imaging-technologist) — median $95,480
- [Surgical Technologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/surgical-technologist) — median $64,650

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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