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Surgical Technologists
SUMMARY
Moderate Risk
43%
(Avg. of calculated & votes)
JOB SCORE
5.5/10
CALCULATED
40%
(Moderate Risk)
POLLING
47%
(Moderate Risk)
GROWTH
by year 2033
5.8%
WAGES
$60,610
or $29.14 per hour
VOLUME
as of 2023
110,320
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DECRIPTION 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.