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Anesthesiologist Assistant: what the job is, what it pays, and how to get hired.

The work, the skills that matter, the tools in demand and the pay range, from U.S. government data, plus every TryHired page for the role.

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Updated Oct 24, 2026 · Data: BLS OEWS May 2025 · O*NET 31.0
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Median percentile pay

Half of anesthesiologist assistants earn more than this and half earn less.

Annual
$135,880
Hourly
$65.33
Source
BLS May 2025
Quick answer

Anesthesiologist Assistants assist anesthesiologists in the administration of anesthesia for surgical and non-surgical procedures. The median pay is $135,880 a year ($65.33 an hour) (BLS, May 2025).

Median pay
$135,880
BLS May 2025
Employed in the U.S.
162,150
BLS May 2025
Preparation
Job Zone 5 of 5
extensive preparation
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The work

What anesthesiologist assistants do day to day

Data Core tasks rated most important by workers in the role (O*NET).

  1. Provide airway management interventions including tracheal intubation, fiber optics, or ventilary support.
  2. Control anesthesia levels during procedures.
  3. Administer anesthetic, adjuvant, or accessory drugs under the direction of an anesthesiologist.
  4. Pretest and calibrate anesthesia delivery systems and monitors.
  5. Respond to emergency situations by providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), or pediatric advanced life support (PALS).
  6. Collect and document patients' pre-anesthetic health histories.
  7. Administer blood, blood products, or supportive fluids.
  8. Verify availability of operating room supplies, medications, and gases.
Skills that matter

Ranked by importance to the job

Data O*NET importance ratings. The first three are core.

MonitoringcoreReading ComprehensioncoreActive ListeningcoreSpeakingActive LearningJudgment and Decision MakingCritical ThinkingOperations MonitoringComplex Problem Solving

Knowledge areas: Medicine and Dentistry, Biology, English Language, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics.

Tools and technology

Software anesthesiologist assistants use

Data Examples reported for the role; employer demand flags from O*NET.

  • eClinicalWorks EHR softwareMedical softwareHot technology
  • Allscripts PMMedical software
  • Automatic Data Processing AdvancedMD EHRMedical software
  • Benchmark Systems Benchmark Clinical EHRMedical software
  • Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMRMedical software
  • CareCloud CentralMedical software
  • Cerner PowerWorks Practice ManagementMedical software
  • Epic Practice ManagementMedical software
  • GE Healthcare Centricity Practice SolutionMedical software
  • GalacTek ECLIPSEMedical software
  • Greenway Medical Technologies PrimeSUITEMedical software
  • HealthFusion MediTouchMedical software

Also called: Anesthesia Assistant, Anesthesia Orderly, Anesthesia Technician (Anesthesia Tech), Anesthesiology Assistant, Anesthesiology Technician (Anesthesiology Tech), CAA (Certified Anesthesiologist Assistant).

Method

How this page is built

Tasks, skills, tools, education and related roles come from O*NET 31.0. Pay and employment come from the BLS OEWS May 2025 national estimates. The skill-match score is our calculation: Skill match is the correlation between the two occupations' skill profiles: for each of 35 O*NET skills (10 essential, 25 transferable) we multiply importance by level, subtract the average across all occupations, and correlate the two profiles. 100 means identical shape; 0 or below means unrelated. Only occupations that O*NET itself lists as related are compared.

What this page can't tell you
  • How a specific employer defines the job.
  • Pay for self-employed workers (OEWS covers employees).
  • Your own chances: data describes the occupation, not you.
Sources
  1. O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. TryHired selected, ranked and combined the data; O*NET is not responsible for these pages.
  2. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 estimates (public domain).