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Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings

Certified Surgical Technologist: $77K median posted pay.

From 8 salary bands employers posted on 36 open certified surgical technologist roles in healthcare. Never an estimate.

Median posted band$77K8 posted a band
Middle half$74K–$80K25th to 75th percentile
Open roles3618 posted in 30 days
Entry level1asking no prior experience
Remote0%as the postings state it

The ladder, by level

What each rung pays.

No level is named often enough in these postings to build a ladder.

Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.

Who is hiring

The employers with the most open.

EmployerOpen rolesEntry level
Prisma Health10—
Easyservice8—
Ummh6—
Quality, Compassionate Care For All4—
Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS)3—
Massgeneralbrigham1—
Nyp1—
Kansashealthsystem1—
Jeffersonhealth1—
Distro1—

Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open certified surgical technologist roles tonight.

The skills, as the postings name them

What these postings ask for.

SkillPostingsAt entry
Surgical Technology36—
Surgical Assisting33—
Infection Control26—
CPR and Basic Life Support22—
Registered Nursing21—
Sterile Field Management16—
TypeScript15—
ORM Frameworks10—
Anatomy and Physiology6—
Podiatric Care4—

Where the work is

0% of these roles are remote.

  • Remote0%0 roles
  • Hybrid0%0 roles
  • On site97%35 roles
  • Not stated3%1 roles

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How this was counted

Every figure is counted from 36 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 8 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Certified Surgical Technologist (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in healthcare, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.