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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.
What a surgical technologist does
Become a surgical technologist
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good surgical technologist
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $32 per hour with an average salary of $66,600 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $27 and $37 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $55,600 and $76,800 per year.
Surgical Technologist job outlook
- There are 2,151 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 264 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.