I’m just conveying what has been said to me during many, many hours in NICU. On the respiratory tech front I’m not referring to the people with only resp tech training, I’m referring a someone who was working on their Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) with a focus on neonatal respiratory. Agreed that you won’t get this level of salary right out of college.
Here’s salary info on this level of qualification, you’ll see the 100K level is the 75th percentile in San Diego, throw in some overtime and you’re cooking with gas: