We place CT, MRI, diagnostic, interventional, ultrasound, nuclear medicine and radiation therapy technologists on travel, contract, per diem and permanent assignments. Bill rates typically run $80–$120 per hour. With MRI vacancy at 17.4% nationally and CT at a record 19.4%, imaging is currently one of the hardest disciplines in healthcare to staff — and the one where a vacancy idles a capital asset rather than just stretching a team.
Facilities routinely compare a travel technologist’s bill rate to a staff technologist’s wage and conclude the traveler is expensive. That is the wrong comparison.
The right one is against scanner downtime. An MRI or CT suite that cannot run generates nothing while still carrying its capital cost, service contract and scheduled patients. Measured that way, the bill rate is usually the cheaper number by a wide margin.
A rad tech who has covered MRI is not an MRI technologist. On a req that has been open ninety days the temptation to blur that line is real, and it reliably produces scan quality problems and early exits.
We specify modality, registry pathway and equipment at intake. If you have not decided your policy on ARMRIT versus ARRT (MR), we will raise it before candidates are in play rather than during an offer.
Vacancy rates across imaging modalities are at historic highs, reaching above 24% in some regions. A significant share of the existing workforce is over 50 and approaching retirement. And training programs produce far fewer cross-modality technologists than the market needs. None of those three reverse quickly.
Intake covers modality, equipment manufacturer, daily volume, call expectations, registry requirements and state licensure. We confirm credentials before submittal. Cost detail is published here; role-specific guidance is in how to hire an MRI technologist.
MRI technologist vacancy sits at 17.4% nationally and CT has reached a record 19.4%, with some regions above 24%. A significant share of the existing workforce is over 50 and approaching retirement, and training programs produce far fewer cross-modality technologists than the market needs. None of those three reverse quickly.
ARRT is the primary registry, with modality post-primary credentials in CT, MR, mammography and interventional. ARMRIT is an alternative MRI registry accepted by some facilities and not others. Decide your policy before candidates are in play — discovering it during an offer costs you the candidate and the week.
Most states license imaging technologists individually. Roughly eleven do not, regulating instead at facility or equipment-operator level. Where no individual license exists, verification of registry status and continuing competency falls to you rather than to a state board — which is a compliance exposure worth knowing about rather than discovering at survey.
CT, MRI, diagnostic radiography, interventional radiology, mammography, ultrasound, echocardiography, vascular, nuclear medicine, PET/CT, radiation therapy and dosimetry.
We work to whatever your facility policy is. The important thing is deciding that policy before candidates are in play rather than during an offer.
Assignments generally run $2,000 to $3,500 per week in clinician compensation, with facility bill rates commonly $80 to $120 per hour. CT and MRI sit at the top of the band given current vacancy rates.
Tell us the credential, the unit and the start date. We come back with a realistic fill window and the current market rate.