CDI Specialist Salary & Pay Data

BLS OEWS May 2025 · Closest available occupation: SOC 29-9021 Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars

Closest available: median, all health information technologists and medical registrars
$68,020
$32.70 an hour
CDI Specialist wage alone (BLS)
Not published

Closest available: BLS has no CDI occupation, and many CDI specialists are registered nurses.

This is health information technologists and medical registrars.

Annual figures are BLS hourly wages × 2,080 hours. OEWS covers wage-and-salary workers only, so it leaves out the self-employed (including freelance billers and coders and billing company owners), workers in private households, overtime pay and most bonuses.

What the BLS figure covers

Median, all health information technologists and medical registrars
$68,020
Jobs in the occupation
38,100
BLS series for this title
None

These are BLS figures for every worker in SOC 29-9021 Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars, the closest available occupation, shown only as a benchmark.

BLS publishes no separate series or percentiles for CDI specialists, so this page does not show a percentile table for the role.