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Programming career test: Clinical Laboratory Technologist in Salida, CO

Of the 1 county in the Salida, CO labor market, 1 tourism and recreation county — the hospital district is often the county's largest payroll, and retirement and visitor populations raise clinical demand. That is where a clinical laboratory technologist is hired here.

HomeSTEM CompassProgramming career testClinical Laboratory Technologist › Salida, CO
+4%Growth 2024–34
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What the work is worth. Most medical decisions rest on a lab result. The technologist is the reason the number on the chart is right.

An ordinary day. Run and verify the blood, tissue, and fluid tests that diagnoses depend on; operate precise instruments; flag results that need urgent attention.

The path in. Bachelor's in medical technology or life science plus certification.

From zero. The STEM Farm Healthcare / Clinical Support / Medical Technology track starts at zero-STEM intake and ends in this kind of work, with verified proof at every gate.

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Programming career test. Most career tests stop at a type. This one measures fifteen STEM working traits and eight kinds of impact, then matches the whole profile to careers and to a path from zero. Programming rewards the person who tries a sixth way after the fifth failed. It also rewards detail, procedure and comfort with a defined right answer.

Where in Salida, CO this work lives

Counties in this zone ordered by how closely their ERS economy type matches what clinical laboratory technologist roles are hired into.

Chaffee County, CO

The personality behind the work

Clinical Laboratory Technologist in the metros around Salida, CO

Denver–Aurora, CO11 countiesColorado Springs, CO8 countiesFort Collins, CO3 countiesGrand Junction, CO5 countiesFarmington, NM6 countiesAlamosa, CO6 countiesEdwards–Avon, CO5 countiesLamar, CO4 countiesSidney, NE4 countiesSterling, CO4 countiesLaramie, WY3 countiesSteamboat Springs, CO3 counties

Other careers in Salida, CO

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Sources. Career traits, education paths and value lines are the STEM Compass assessment library. Employment growth is U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024–2034. County economic types are USDA Economic Research Service County Typology Codes (2025); labor markets are Census commuting zones (2020). Salary is not shown anywhere in this campaign on purpose: the assessment measures fit and what the work is worth to the world.