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STEM pathway path: Clinical Laboratory Technologist in Marquette, MI

Of the 4 counties in the Marquette, MI labor market, 3 tourism and recreation counties — 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 CompassSTEM pathway pathClinical Laboratory Technologist › Marquette, MI
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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.

Take the STEM Compass assessmentZero to Clinical Laboratory Technologist →

STEM pathway path. A path has a start, a direction and a destination. The assessment gives the direction, the career pages the destination, and the STEM Farm track the start at zero. A pathway has a start, a direction and a destination. The assessment gives the direction; the career pages give the destination; the STEM Farm track gives the start.

Where in Marquette, MI this work lives

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

Alger County, MIMarquette County, MISchoolcraft County, MIDelta County, MI

The personality behind the work

Clinical Laboratory Technologist in the metros around Marquette, MI

Detroit, MI12 countiesGrand Rapids, MI8 countiesLansing, MI4 countiesSouth Bend, IN–MI8 countiesKalamazoo, MI4 countiesSaginaw, MI9 countiesJackson, MI3 countiesTraverse City–Garfield, MI5 countiesHoughton Lake, MI6 countiesCadillac, MI5 countiesMarinette–Menominee, WI–MI5 countiesAlpena, MI4 counties

Other careers in Marquette, MI

Biomedical Engineer+6%Registered Nurse+5%Physician Assistant+20%Physician & Surgeon+4%Medical Scientist+9%Epidemiologist+16%Microbiologist+5%

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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.