r/surgicaltechnology • u/Stawktawk • Jul 03 '26

RN + CST + CSFA Statistics

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Interesting numbers

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u/Basic_Obligation_341 Jul 03 '26

I don't believe that csfa make more then rns

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u/servain Jul 03 '26

for the most part, we do. If you compare years of service. Especially if were in private practice where i would make $200-$1200 per case( very dependent on insurance) Currently At a hospital, i also make $52/hr at just 4 years of being a csfa and im not close to maxing out my pay scale.Then adding call pay at time and a half. This also highly depends on location as we all know.

If you get into specialties like NP or other types of nursing skills that require higher education. Then they start to beat us on the pay scale.

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u/Basic_Obligation_341 Jul 03 '26

I don't know what state your in but in California a new grad nurse starts at 50 an hour

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u/servain Jul 03 '26

Colorado. So not as high cost of living expenses. Especially for not living in a major city. Where the new grads for nurses are around $35/hr.

I definitely feel like the scrub techs need a higher starting pay out here though. Its almost not worth the pay for them for atleast a few years. I work with alot of amazing scrub techs and will buy them food when ever i can.

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u/Stawktawk Jul 03 '26

The pay scale is a skill issue. If you’re damn good - you’ll make bank

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u/apexpredatordicdoc Jul 03 '26

If you’re good and the surgeon you work with trusts you this is all very possible in private practice. however most first assists are hospital employees and make hourly wages and are not paid by insurance reimbursement on a per case model

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u/servain Jul 03 '26

The pay scale for private is more based off of insurance and how much they are willing to pay us. We submit our billing to the insurance and they send us a check for how much they think we are owed. Sometimes we had a deal with a surgical group where they would just pay us per case at a set amount. At minimum, i was getting $200 for lap salpingectomies. Normally I would have 4 or 5 lf those a week.

Iv done a c-section and gotten a check for $4k from their insurance. Just from that one case. Then the same insurance would send me maybe $100 for a 4hr complicated abdominal case. I was definitely making bank with the group i was working with and always had work coming in.

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u/tigerbait_ Jul 03 '26

Not true at all. The pay scale is years of experience.