Medical dosimetrists

SOC 29-2036 · 29-0000 · Score reference month September 2026

Generate radiation treatment plans, develop radiation dose calculations, communicate and supervise the treatment plan implementation, and consult with members of radiation oncology team.

In short

The national Job Market Health score is in the Balanced band for September 2026.

Job Market Health score

57/ 100
Balanced

Stable · -1

Confidence
High
Restated score
57
Methodology
v1.0
Geography
US
  • At least 90% of required inputs and occupation-industry mapping are covered.

Job Market Health scores are derived indicators based on published data, informational only, not a forecast or guarantee.

$147,470Median annual wageOEWS May 2025
200Projected annual openingsBLS Employment Projections 2025-2035
+5.0%Projected growth2025–2035
3,410Total employmentOEWS May 2025

Latest interpretation

What stands out for medical dosimetrists

The clearest signals from the latest validated score, outlook and metro data.

Occupation fundamentals is the strongest component

Occupation fundamentals scores 88/100, compared with 42/100 for current demand, a 46-point difference.

JobMarketHealth score components

Published long-term outlook

BLS projects 200 average annual openings and +5.0% employment growth from 2025 to 2035. Projected openings are a modeled annual average, not vacancies open today.

BLS Employment Projections

Largest published metro market

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ has the largest published metro employment count for medical dosimetrists, at 280 jobs. The next-largest published metro is Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX with 130 jobs. This measures employment scale, not market quality.

BLS OEWS

Local market context

QCEW industry conditions for this occupation’s employment mix

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How to read this section

QCEW measures employment and wages by industry, not by occupation. We weight those industry conditions using the published industry mix for this occupation. These figures describe the industries that employ this occupation; they are not direct counts of people working in the occupation or jobs currently open.

Source: BLS QCEW. This section is not part of the national 0 to 100 Job Market Health score. See the methodology.

Compare states for medical dosimetristsSide-by-side published industry conditions for two or three states. There is no state-level health score; the 0 to 100 score is national.

How to read this page

The score is a national composite from 0 to 100 that weights near term hiring demand at 50 percent, the occupation's own employment fundamentals at 30 percent, and long-term outlook at 20 percent. Wages and occupation profile details are context shown alongside it, not score inputs. See the full methodology.

Median annual wage and metro employment come from BLS OEWS, which is annual. Projected annual openings and projected growth come from BLS Employment Projections and describe the published projection horizon, so they are not a count of jobs open today. Values shown as not published are suppressed by the source rather than filled in here.

Job Market Health trend

Published composite score · 0–100 · by reference month

Latest published values
  • Sep 2657 / 100
View values: Job Market Health history
Job Market Health history
Reference monthScore / 100
Jan 2572
Feb 2572
Mar 2571
Apr 2570
May 2571
Jun 2570
Jul 2569
Aug 2567
Sep 2566
Oct 2562
Nov 2562
Dec 2560
Jan 2664
Feb 2660
Mar 2660
Apr 2659
May 2661
Jun 2660
Jul 2659
Aug 2658
Sep 2657

Score components

The three published inputs behind the composite · each 0–100

Current demand42 / 100
Occupation fundamentals88 / 100
Long-term outlook47 / 100

Largest metro markets by employment

OEWS employment count, where the jobs are, not a quality ranking

OEWS May 2025. These occupation counts describe the survey reference period.

Linked metro names open overall job-market profiles.

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Employment · number of jobs

  • New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ280
  • Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX130
  • Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN110
  • Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX90
  • Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA80
  • Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV80
  • Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI70
  • Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD60
  • Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH50
  • Jacksonville, FL50
Largest metro markets by employment
Metro areaEmploymentJobs per 1,000Median annual wage
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ2800.03$176,030
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX1300.04$133,240
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN1100.03$165,620
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX900.02$159,570
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA800.03$156,040
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV800.03$156,290
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI700.03$139,210
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD600.02$156,090
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH500.02$148,000
Jacksonville, FL500.06$150,210

Education & training

Typical entry requirements · BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035

Typical education
Bachelor's degree
Work experience
None
On-the-job training
None
Projected employment
3,700 jobs

Top skills

Occupation profile · O*NET 31.0 Database

  • Critical Thinking
  • Active Listening
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Speaking
  • Writing
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Mathematics
  • Monitoring
  • Time Management

Also known as: CMD (Certified Medical Dosimetrist), Dosimetrist, Medical Dosimetrist, Medical Physicist, Radiation Oncology Medical Physicist

AI & this occupation

How AI relates to Medical dosimetrists work

Across 3 research exposure measures, Medical dosimetrists is in the middle technical AI exposure band based on the mean of the available source-specific percentile ranks. Exposure describes how much of the work the studied AI capabilities could technically assist with; it is not a forecast of job loss.

JobMarketHealth has not measured an AI effect on this occupation's employment or wages, and these figures do not enter its scores; there is no clear evidence of displacement in the data shown here.

Technical AI exposureMiddle exposureMean of 3 available source-specific percentile ranks (4 measures checked); fixed exposure bands, not a national rank of the composite
Dated Claude task exposureNot observedNo Anthropic Economic Index row for this occupation
Business AI use (BTOS Core)24.6%U.S. businesses using AI, two weeks ending 2026-10-04; all industries, not this occupation
Historical task mix (2025)Not enough tasksFewer than 3 observed tasks
Measured labor-market effectNot estimatedJobMarketHealth does not attribute employment or wage changes to AI

Exposure measures (kept separate)

  • GPTs are GPTs exposure (β, GPT-4 rated): 0.45 of 1, national percentile 67 (higher third)
  • Microsoft AI applicability: 0.16 of 1, national percentile 57 (middle third)
  • OECD AI Capability Gap (lower gap = higher potential exposure): gap 1.9 of 23, national percentile 73 (higher third)
OECD capability gap by domain

As published by the OECD: the gap between what the occupation demands (0-5) and current AI capability in each domain. A lower gap means AI is closer to the requirement (higher potential exposure); 0 means AI already meets it or the domain is not relevant.

  • Language: gap 0.00 (demand 3.00 of 5)
  • Social interaction: gap 0.70 (demand 2.70 of 5)
  • Problem solving: gap 0.50 (demand 2.50 of 5)
  • Creativity: gap 0.00 (demand 2.00 of 5)
  • Metacognition & critical thinking: gap 1.00 (demand 3.00 of 5)
  • Knowledge, learning & memory: gap 0.25 (demand 3.25 of 5)
  • Vision: gap 0.35 (demand 3.35 of 5)
  • Manipulation: gap 0.50 (demand 2.50 of 5)
  • Robotic intelligence: gap 0.00 (demand 1.35 of 5)

National context: what businesses used generative AI for

From the Census 2025-26 BTOS AI Supplement (all industries; businesses whose employees used generative AI). Census did not measure Medical dosimetrists specifically.

  • Writing or editing documents, emails, or communications: 85.4%
  • Searching for information or technical help: 49.9%
  • Interpreting, analyzing, translating, or summarizing documents: 44.6%
  • Information processing, paperwork, or filing: 34.7%

Exposure and observed usage are separate measures and neither equals job loss. Census BTOS figures are business-level surveys and are not occupation-specific. Sources: GPTs are GPTs occupation exposure; Microsoft Working with AI: AI applicability; OECD AI Exposure Measure (AI Capability Gap); Census BTOS Core AI Use; Census BTOS AI Supplement 2025-26. These figures do not affect Job Market Health scores. Explore AI & Jobs · How we use AI data.

Sources and methodology

The datasets behind the figures on this page

Job Market Health score
Score for reference month September 2026 · methodology v1.0 · MethodologyScore last recalculated Nov 3, 2026 · First published Nov 3, 2026
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
Employment, wages and largest metros · OEWS May 2025 · publisher release May 15, 2026 · About this sourceRetrieved Sep 17, 2026
BLS Employment Projections
Projected growth, openings, education and training · BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035 · publisher release Aug 27, 2026 · About this sourceRetrieved Sep 17, 2026
O*NET
Skills, alternate titles and related occupations · O*NET 31.0 Database · publisher release date not verified · About this sourceRetrieved Oct 19, 2026

Values marked “Not published” are suppressed or not published by the source. We leave them blank rather than estimating them. Pipeline status for every source is on Data Status.

Related occupations

O*NET® lists these occupations as related. Each link opens the same published view of score, wages and outlook.

Evidence record

JobMarketHealth derived indicator; not a government statistic. The composite score is national and occupation level.

Occupation
Medical dosimetrists
SOC code
29-2036
Geography
United States
Reference month
September 2026
Published Job Market Health score
57 / 100
Restated score
57 / 100
Band
Balanced
Current Demand component
42 / 10050% weight
Occupation Fundamentals component
88 / 10030% weight
Long-Term Outlook component
47 / 10020% weight
Confidence
HighAt least 90% of required inputs and occupation-industry mapping are covered.
Methodology version
v1.0
Source vintage: Annual
EP-2025-2035|CPS-25b-2025|OEWS-2020-2025
Source vintage: Monthly calculated at
2026-11-03T20:58:15.604Z
First published at
Nov 3, 2026
Recalculated at
Nov 3, 2026
Canonical record URL
https://jobmarkethealth.com/occupations/medical-dosimetrists#evidence-record
Derived by
JobMarketHealth

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Learn how to judge a market from these numbers in how to tell if a job market is healthy, or why projected growth and annual openings often disagree in projected growth vs projected annual openings. Coverage, revisions and limits are explained on about the data.

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