Medical Billing and Coding Specialist Salary & Pay Data
BLS OEWS May 2025 · Closest available occupation: SOC 29-2072 Medical Records Specialists
Closest available: BLS has no combined billing-and-coding occupation.
This is medical records specialists, the occupation that includes medical coders; billers are counted separately as billing and posting clerks (43-3021, May 2025 median $48,500, all industries).
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
These are BLS figures for every worker in SOC 29-2072 Medical Records Specialists, the closest available occupation, shown only as a benchmark.
BLS publishes no separate series or percentiles for medical billing and coding specialists, so this page does not show a percentile table for the role.