14 Professions That Are Ridiculously Underpaid And 7 That Are So Overpaid, It's Wild
October 26, 2025
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UNDERPAID: “Medical lab technicians, medical lab scientists, and clinical lab scientists are waaaay underpaid! Most people don’t even know what we are and what we do. We have the same education as nurses, if not more, depending on whether you’re an MLT vs. MLS/CLS, but we get paid 40–60% less than nurses. But our work is two-thirds of the diagnostics that go into…





