Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Surgical Technologist: $76K median posted pay.
From 59 salary bands employers posted on 148 open surgical technologist roles in healthcare. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 15 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
| Mid | 10 | — (7 of 8 bands) | — |
| Management | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| GTI | 16 | — |
| Cleveland Clinic | 16 | — |
| Advocate Health | 15 | — |
| Highmark Health | 12 | — |
| Brownhealth | 9 | — |
| luminishealth | 9 | — |
| Kansashealthsystem | 8 | — |
| University of Washington | 6 | — |
| Christianacare | 5 | — |
| Nebraska Medicine includes two hospitals | 5 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open surgical technologist roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Surgical Technology | 148 | — |
| CPR and Basic Life Support | 121 | — |
| Surgical Assisting | 109 | — |
| Registered Nursing | 91 | — |
| Infection Control | 73 | — |
| Sterile Field Management | 51 | — |
| TypeScript | 47 | — |
| Customer Service | 31 | — |
| Deep Cleaning and Sanitation | 25 | — |
| Pediatric Care | 20 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site63%93 roles
- Not stated37%55 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 148 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 59 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior 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.