Earnings

Median annual wages of wage-and-salary surgical technologists were $39,920 in May 2010. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $28,100, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $57,330.

Median annual wages in the industries employing the largest number of surgical technologists in may 2010 were:

• Outpatient care centers                                                          
• Offices of physicians                                    
• General medical and surgical hospitals; state,local and private                             
• Offices of dentists                                

Source: U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2012-2013 Edition (http://www.bls.gov/oco/)