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Anesthesia technician salary

Open anesthesia technician jobs post a median of $28.75 an hour, with the middle half paying $24.25–$36.25: about $59,800 a year full time. Measured from 101 jobs at 58 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$28.75
Median posted /hr
$24–$36
Middle half /hr
$59,800
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$24.18
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Anesthesia technician jobs

What anesthesia technicians are paid

Each bar counts the open jobs posting an hourly rate in its step of pay (a range at its midpoint). The middle half of employers' rates is in the darker color.

Posted hourly rates of 101 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $12.50, the highest $64.60.

Posted on open jobs

$24.25–$36.25/hr

Middle half of 91 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $28.75. 45% of the 223 open anesthesia technician jobs state an hourly rate. 4 more state an "up to" ceiling, a weekly travel rate, a per-visit fee, or a rate far from the rest (a differential read as pay), left out.

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Anesthesia technician pay by employer

What each employer posts for anesthesia technicians, the employers with the most jobs stating pay first. An employer with at least 5 such jobs has a page of its own with every range it posts.

EmployerMedian postedPosted rangeJobs stating pay
Kaiser Permanente$41$29.53–$45.067
Scripps Health$39$31.81–$48.284
Providence$30.75$21.16–$54.394
Beth Israel Lahey Health$28$20–$37.844
Sutter Health$48.50$36.16–$64.603
UChicago Medicine$30.25$25.91–$37.883
AdventHealth$22.50$16.51–$31.633
UW Medicine$50$49.982
Stanford Medicine Children's Health$47.50$43.79–$51.542
NewYork-Presbyterian$42.50$42.502
Cedars-Sinai$41.50$35.98–$55.772
Overlake Medical Center$41$30.85–$49.972
Children's National Hospital$37$24.52–$49.592
MemorialCare$35$33.79–$362
Mass General Brigham$28.50$19.76–$38.702
Shriners Children's$28.50$21.24–$36.762
University of Rochester Medical Center$28$19.91–$38.142
Atlantic Health$27.75$20.97–$34.642
CommonSpirit Health$27.50$16.42–$40.662
Advocate Health$26$20.80–$31.202
Endeavor Health$25.75$21.10–$30.602
UPMC$25.50$19.19–$32.012
Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago$24.75$19.50–$30.232
Ascension$24.50$19.65–$30.152
Tufts Medicine$24.25$21.53–$26.912
UW Health$24.25$19.59–$29.302
Baptist Health South Florida$24$20.42–$28.162
RWJBarnabas Health$23.75$20.99–$26.712
Mayo Clinic$23.50$20.46–$28.252
UCSF Health$49.25$43.87–$54.641
Stanford Health Care$47.50$44.79–$50.111
Luminis Health$40$30–$501
EvergreenHealth Monroe$39.75$32–$47.511
HealthTrust Workforce Solutions$35$32.24–$37.961
Northwell Health$34.25$33.35–$35.301
UMass Memorial Health$32$23–$40.911
Loma Linda University Health$31.25$26.70–$35.911
Signature Healthcare$31$27–$351
St. Charles Health System$30$24.48–$35.511
Northwestern Medicine$28.75$23.57–$34.171

Median of each employer's own jobs (a range at its midpoint), and the lowest and highest rate it posts. Jobs stating pay link to the employer's open jobs.

Anesthesia technician pay by state

States where at least 8 open jobs from 3 employers state an hourly rate, highest median first. Each opens the state's own page, with its towns and employers.

StateMedian postedMiddle halfBLS medianJobs
California$41$36.50–$47$29.03 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)22
Illinois$27.50$26–$29.25$24 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10
Massachusetts$27.25$24.25–$31.25$29.09 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)11

Median and middle half of employers' rates in the state. BLS medians are for the occupation's main SOC code in the state (May 2025).

Night shift anesthesia technician pay

Where one employer posts both night and other anesthesia technician jobs in the same state (3 such employers and states), the night jobs post the same base rate as the rest (the median gap is $0): most employers state their night differential apart from the base pay, so check the posting for it.

Employer, stateNight jobs, medianOther jobs, median
Scripps Health, CA$39 (1)$39 (3)
Cedars-Sinai, CA$46 (1)$37 (1)
NewYork-Presbyterian, NY$42.50 (1)$42.50 (1)

A job counts as a night job when its title names nights ("Nights", "NOC", "7p-7a"). Jobs in brackets.

Best-paid open anesthesia technician jobs

The open jobs posting the highest hourly rates tonight, at most two from one employer.

Every open job: Anesthesia technician jobs

What BLS measures

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys what people employed in the occupation earn, at every level of experience. A posting advertises what a new hire is offered, so the two measure different things.

Hourly wages, BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, national. Each figure opens its BLS page.
BLS occupation10th pct25th pctMedian75th pct90th pctEmployed
Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other (29-2099)$18.36 (source: BLS OEWS, Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other, opens in a new tab)$21.24 (source: BLS OEWS, Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other, opens in a new tab)$24.18 (source: BLS OEWS, Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other, opens in a new tab)$30.93 (source: BLS OEWS, Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other, opens in a new tab)$40.99 (source: BLS OEWS, Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other, opens in a new tab)182,610 (source: BLS OEWS, Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($28.75) is $4.57 above the BLS median ($24.18 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other, opens in a new tab)). Posted ranges run from a new hire's rate to an experienced one's, and their midpoint is counted here.

Anesthesia technician salary: common questions

How much does an anesthesia technician make an hour?

Open anesthesia technician jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $28.75, with the middle half between $24.25–$36.25 (101 jobs from 58 employers, each employer's advertised range counted once). Postings advertise a base rate, usually before shift differentials and bonuses. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics measured a median of $24.18/hr ($50,290 a year) for health technologists and technicians, all other in May 2025.

How much does an anesthesia technician make a year?

At the posted median of $28.75 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $59,800, and the middle half to $50,400 to $75,400. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states.

Which states pay anesthesia technicians the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: California ($41), Illinois ($27.50) and Massachusetts ($27.25). The lowest: Massachusetts ($27.25), Illinois ($27.50) and California ($41). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

Do night shift anesthesia technicians earn more?

Not in the base rate employers post: where one employer posts both night and other anesthesia technician jobs in the same state (3 such employers and states), the median gap is $0. Most state their night differential separately in the posting.

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay CareJobs.Now's open jobs state, read every night from each employer's own job board: 101 of 223 open anesthesia technician jobs (45%) state an hourly rate. No pay is estimated for a job that states none, "up to" ceilings and weekly travel rates are left out, and each employer's advertised range counts once in the median, so no single employer sets it.

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Sources and method

Only pay a job states is used: a plain hourly or yearly figure or range in US dollars, read from the job's own posting. A range counts at its midpoint. In the median and the middle half each employer's advertised range counts once, so an employer posting one range in many towns does not set the figure; an employer's own figures count its jobs one by one. "Up to" ceilings, weekly travel rates and rates under a third or over three times the occupation's median are left out. The yearly estimate is the hourly rate times 2,080 hours (40 a week). A job counts under its occupation and every occupation above it, and under every state it is open in. A page exists while at least 8 jobs from 3 employers state a rate. BLS figures are as published.
  1. CareJobs.Now job board: the pay open jobs state, read nightly from each employer's own careers site, published October 24, 2026
  2. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other (SOC 29-2099), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other, published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Anesthesia technician salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/anesthesia-technician

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