Travel Operating Room Tech - Sterile Processing Tech - Aspen, CO
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How this pay compares
This assignment posts $1,759 a week, the agency's gross: a taxable hourly rate plus housing and meal stipends. Open travel surgical technologist assignments post a median of $1,898 a week, the middle half $1,602 to $2,140, across 385 assignments, so this one is within the middle half of what they post. Staff pay is hourly and carries no stipends, so it is not set beside it.
Tax-free stipend limit here
GSA's per diem rate for Aspen, CO (GSA's Aspen area) is $173 a night for lodging in November 2026 and $92 a day for meals and incidentals: $1,855 a week. Agencies set tax-free housing and meal stipends against it, for a traveler who keeps a tax home elsewhere; the posting's own figure says what this assignment pays. Stipend limits in Colorado.
What Colorado requires of a surgical technologist
Surgical Technologist registration, from the Colorado Division of Professions and Occupations (DORA), Office of Surgical Assistant and Surgical Technologist Registration.
- Anyone who regularly performs the majority of a surgical technologist's duties for a hospital, ambulatory surgical center or similar facility must register with the state (4 CCR 745-1, under C.R.S. 12-310).
Surgical tech and sterile processing jobs in our research
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- How often these jobs state their pay: Jobs stating any pay 51.4% · Stating an hourly rate 39.0%
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About the job
Travel assignment, 13 weeks, 10hr days, 40 hours a week, starting 30 Nov 2026.
Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $1,759 a week in all, a taxable rate of $15.50 an hour plus $1,139.11 a week in housing and meal stipends.
Job Summary
Sterile Processing Technician, Sterile Processing Tech. The Sterile Processing Technician cleans, disinfects, and sterilizes instruments used for surgical procedures and patient care. This role performs biological and sterile supply testing, maintains required logs, supports endoscopy procedures, coordinates instrument needs, and collaborates with clinical departments to promote patient safety and efficient operations.
Job Details
- Schedule: Day shift; 10-hour shifts; 40 hours per week.
- Required Qualifications: Certification as a Certified Registered Central Service Technician (CRCST) or certification through the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CER).
- Preferred Qualifications: Bilingual Spanish language skills.
- Additional Information:
- Clean, disinfect, and sterilize surgical and patient-care instruments.
- Perform daily biological and sterile supply testing and maintain associated logs.
- Organize and direct instrument needs for clinical units.
- Assist with endoscopy procedures and support clinical operations as needed.
- Stock and order supplies for the department as directed.
- Complete competencies based on established sterile processing practice standards.
- Collaborate with departmental and clinical teams to support patient safety, communication, and efficient operations.
- Safely function in a low-oxygen environment at high elevation.
Benefits
The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:
- Private housing or generous housing allowance
- Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
- Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
- Competitive salaries
- Referral bonuses
- Travel reimbursement
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Direct deposit/free checking
- Unlimited free CE credits
From Cross Country Healthcare's job posting, checked 12 Nov 2026. The employer's own page is the final word on requirements and availability.
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About Cross Country Healthcare
National healthcare staffing company in Boca Raton, Florida, placing travel nurses, allied professionals and therapists, with local contract and per diem work too. Source: Cross Country, Travel FAQs
Based in Boca Raton, FLHires in 51 statesPay on its listings: 0.7% of its open jobs state an hourly rate
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