Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Surgical Technician: $70K median posted pay.
From 54 salary bands employers posted on 73 open surgical technician roles in healthcare. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 12 | $101K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Veterans Health Administration | 32 | — |
| Umiami | 9 | — |
| Usc (Externalusccareers) | 8 | — |
| Usc (ExternalKeckUSCCareers) | 8 | — |
| Ochsner Health (Ochsner) | 4 | — |
| Avera | 4 | — |
| Cincinnati Eye Institute | 3 | — |
| Advocate Health | 2 | — |
| Massgeneralbrigham | 1 | — |
| Shm | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open surgical technician roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Registered Nursing | 34 | — |
| Infection Control | 31 | — |
| Surgical Technology | 28 | — |
| CPR and Basic Life Support | 26 | — |
| Surgical Assisting | 25 | — |
| Accessibility | 20 | — |
| Background Screening | 16 | — |
| Nonconformance Handling | 15 | — |
| Clinical Trials | 14 | — |
| Continuous Improvement | 14 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site99%72 roles
- Not stated1%1 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 73 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 54 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Surgical 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.