National Wages

• The mean hourly pay rate for health information technicians at all levels of experience from across the United States was $16.83 as of May 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The top 10 percent of health information technicians in the U.S. earned wages in excess of $25.69 per hour, while the bottom 10 percent earned hourly wages of less than $10.21. The median hourly pay rate for U.S.-based health information technicians was $15.55. Medical records supervisors tended to earn on the higher end of the wage range due to their additional responsibilities and training requirements.
  
  

Regional Wages

• Hourly wages for medical records supervisors can vary widely based on the part of the country where the supervisor works. Health information technicians who worked in New Jersey earned higher mean hourly wages than techs who worked in other states. New Jersey-based technicians earned mean hourly wages of $22.62. Those who worked in the District of Columbia and Hawaii also earned in excess of $20 per hour. Those who worked in the state of Mississippi earned mean hourly wages that were less than those who worked in all other states, at $13.09.
  
  

Local Wages

• Hourly wages for medical records supervisors can vary within a state by locality. Those who worked in the Newark-Union, New Jersey-Pennsylvania Metropolitan Division earned mean hourly wages of $25.26, while those who worked in Ocean City, New Jersey, earned mean wages of $16.73 per hour as of May 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Health information techs who worked in the nonmetropolitan area of northwest Mississippi earned mean hourly wages of $11.70, while their counterparts in Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi, earned mean wages of $15.48 per hour.
  
  

Employment Type

• The type of employer a medical records supervisor works for can significantly influence her hourly pay rate. General medical and surgical hospitals offered the greatest number of job opportunities for health information technicians and paid a mean hourly rate of $17.80 as of May 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Those who worked in private physicians' offices earned mean hourly rates of $13.96, while those who worked for the federal executive branch of the government earned mean wages of $22.16 per hour.