Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Sterile Processing Technician: $55K median posted pay.
From 40 salary bands employers posted on 82 open sterile processing technician roles in healthcare. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 9 | — (6 of 8 bands) | — |
| Senior | 2 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
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.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| St. Charles Health System | 18 | — |
| Sluhn (SLUHN) | 6 | — |
| Ochsner Health (Ochsner) | 5 | — |
| GTI | 5 | — |
| Kansashealthsystem | 5 | — |
| luminishealth | 4 | — |
| Essentia Health | 4 | — |
| Advocate Health | 4 | — |
| Avera | 3 | — |
| University of Washington | 2 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open sterile processing technician roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Sterile Processing | 82 | — |
| Customer Service | 27 | — |
| Assembly Line Work | 26 | — |
| Infection Control | 22 | — |
| Investigation | 22 | — |
| Continuous Improvement | 21 | — |
| Lean Manufacturing | 18 | — |
| Packaging Operations | 18 | — |
| Surgical Technology | 17 | — |
| Registered Nursing | 15 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site84%69 roles
- Not stated16%13 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 82 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 40 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Sterile Processing Technician (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.