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Surgical Technology Statistics

According to the US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics’s 2012-13 Occupational Outlook Handbook, there were approximately 93,600 surgical technologist jobs in the United States in 2008. Because of the increased number of expected surgeries, the number of jobs in surgical technology is expected to grow 19 percent (about as fast as average for all occupations) through 2020.

The median annual income of surgical technologists in 2010 was $39,920, or $19.19 per hour.

 

Average Hourly Pay Rate of AST Members by State

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