Annual Salary, Salary Range, and Highest Paying States and Industries
Surgical Technologists
Surgical Technologists assist in operations, under the supervision of surgeons, registered nurses, or other surgical personnel. May help set up operating room, prepare and transport patients for surgery, adjust lights and equipment, pass instruments and other supplies to surgeons and surgeons' assistants, hold retractors, cut sutures, and help count sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments.
Table of contents
- Average salary
- Starting salary
- Salary rank
- Salary range
- Highest paying states
- Highest paying industries
Average salary
Starting salary
Entry-level Surgical Technologists with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $34,120 to $41,010 per year or $16 to $20 per hour. Similar to any other job, their salary will increase as they gain experience.
Salary rank
We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of Surgical Technologists to all the other careers out there. So we created Salary Rank. We compared the salary of all careers then we gave them a rank of A, B, C, or D depending on where their average salary sit in comparison to other careers.
Salary range
Level | Hourly | Annual |
---|---|---|
Highest (Top 10%) | $35 | $73,110 |
Senior (Top 25%) | $29 | $60,980 |
Middle (Mid 50%) | $24 | $49,710 |
Junior (Bottom 25%) | $20 | $41,010 |
No experience (Bottom 10%) | $16 | $34,120 |
Highest paying states
State | Hourly | Annual |
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AK | $32 | $67,120 |
NV | $32 | $67,000 |
CA | $31 | $64,570 |
CT | $30 | $62,310 |
DC | $30 | $61,620 |
MN | $29 | $61,300 |
WA | $29 | $60,450 |
OR | $29 | $59,480 |
RI | $29 | $59,410 |
NY | $29 | $59,380 |
Another simple way to increase your salary as a Surgical Technologist is to move to a higher paying state. However moving to a higher paying state like AK doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the expenses at AK might be much higher than where you are currently living at right now.
According to BLS, the highest paid Surgical Technologists are in the states of AK, NV, CA, CT and DC.
Highest paying industries
Salary by industry | Annual | Hourly |
---|---|---|
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools | $57590 | $27.69 |
Specialty Hospitals | $54900 | $26.39 |
Outpatient Care Centers | $53690 | $25.81 |
Other Ambulatory Health Care Services | $52880 | $25.42 |
Management of Companies and Enterprises | $52440 | $25.21 |
Employment Services | $52350 | $25.17 |
Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers | $52140 | $25.07 |
Offices of Physicians | $51330 | $24.68 |
General Medical and Surgical Hospitals | $51270 | $24.65 |
Local Government | $49890 | $23.98 |
Offices of Other Health Practitioners | $49720 | $23.90 |
Offices of Dentists | $48080 | $23.12 |
Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories | $47530 | $22.85 |
Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) | $46030 | $22.13 |
Home Health Care Services | $43330 | $20.83 |