Jobs / Healthcare / 29-2099.01
Neurodiagnostic Technologists
Conduct electroneurodiagnostic (END) tests such as electroencephalograms, evoked potentials, polysomnograms, or electronystagmograms. May perform nerve conduction studies.
- US jobs
- 182,610 (SOC 29-2099 group, "Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other")
- Median wage
- $50,290 a year
- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of neurodiagnostic technologists?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Healthcare:
- Task levelPartialOne benchmark, from early 2025. On Stanford's MedAgentBench, where agents do clinical tasks in a simulated electronic health record, the best recorded model completes 69.7% of tasks (Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2). It has no maintained leaderboard, so newer models are not measured. No benchmark in our collection tests work with patients.
- Project levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. GDPval includes nurses among its 44 occupations. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons across all occupations. No benchmark in our collection tests clinical work over days, such as managing a patient's care.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in healthcare, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Indicate artifacts or interferences derived from sources outside of the brain, such as poor electrode contact or patient movement, on electroneurodiagnostic recordings.
- Monitor patients during tests or surgeries, using electroencephalographs (EEG), evoked potential (EP) instruments, or video recording equipment.
- Conduct tests or studies such as electroencephalography (EEG), polysomnography (PSG), nerve conduction studies (NCS), electromyography (EMG), and intraoperative monitoring (IOM).
- Collect patients' medical information needed to customize tests.
- Explain testing procedures to patients, answering questions or reassuring patients, as needed.
- Set up, program, or record montages or electrical combinations when testing peripheral nerve, spinal cord, subcortical, or cortical responses.
- Summarize technical data to assist physicians to diagnose brain, sleep, or nervous system disorders.
- Conduct tests to determine cerebral death, the absence of brain activity, or the probability of recovery from a coma.
- Attach electrodes to patients, using adhesives.
- Measure patients' body parts and mark locations where electrodes are to be placed.
- Submit reports to physicians summarizing test results.
- Calibrate, troubleshoot, or repair equipment and correct malfunctions, as needed.
Other job titles for this occupation (31)
Certified Intraoperative Neurophysiology Technologist (Certified Intraoperative Neurophysiology Tech) · Certified Neurodiagnostic Technologist · Electroneurodiagnostic Technologist (END Technologist) · Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Technologist (IONM Tech) · Neurodiagnostic Technologist (Neurodiagnostic Tech) · Neurophysiology Technical Specialist · Registered Electroencephalogram Technologist (Registered EEG Tech) · Registered Electroencephalography Technologist (R. EEG. T) · Registered Electroneurodiagnostic Technologist (Registered END Tech) · Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT) · Cardiovascular Operating Room Technologist (CVOR Technologist) · EEG Tech (Electroencephalogram Technician) · EEG Technologist (Electroencephalograph Technologist) · Electroencephalogram Technologist (EEG Technologist) · Electroencephalograph Technician (EEG Tech) · Electrophysiology Technician · EP Technologist (Electrophysiology Technologist) · Laboratory Technologist (Lab Technologist) · Medical Technologist · Neurodiagnostic Technician · Neurophysiology Technologist · Polysomnographer · Polysomnographic Tech (Polysomnographic Technician) · Polysomnographic Technologist · Polysomnography Technician · Polysomnography Technologist · R. EEG. T (Registered Electroencephalograph Technologist) · Registered EEG Tech (Registered Electroencephalogram Technician) · Registered Polysomnographer · Special Procedures Technologist · Travel EEG Tech (Travel Electroencephalogram Technician)