Surgical Tech salary in Virginia: $67,580 median.
Pay for surgical techs across Virginia at every point of the range, against the U.S., the states it borders and the state's metro areas.
Surgical Techs in Virginia earned a median annual wage of $67,580 in May 2025, compared with $64,650 nationally, according to the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey (SOC 29-2055). That is 5% above the U.S. median; the middle half of Virginia workers in this occupation earned between $59,110 and $84,100.
- Virginia median
- $67,580
- $32.49 an hour
- U.S. median
- $64,650
- +5% in Virginia
- Rank, 50 states + DC
- 20 of 51
- by median pay
- Employed in Virginia
- 1,910
- location quotient 0.62
Advice For a pay conversation in Virginia, the state median ($67,580) is the sourced middle of the market; the 25th–75th percentile band ($59,110–$84,100) is where half of the state's workers in this occupation fall. Experience, employer, metro and specialty move individual offers within and beyond that band.
Virginia vs the U.S. at every point of the range
Data Annual wages at five points of the pay distribution, SOC 29-2055, BLS May 2025.
| Point in the pay range | Virginia | United States | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $47,980 | $45,940 | +4% |
| 25th percentile | $59,110 | $54,690 | +8% |
| Median | $67,580 | $64,650 | +5% |
| 75th percentile | $84,100 | $79,750 | +5% |
| 90th percentile | $102,020 | $96,940 | +5% |
Data The local difference is similar across the range (+4% at the 10th percentile, +5% at the 90th). Locally, the 90th-percentile wage is 2.13 times the 10th-percentile wage, versus 2.11 times nationally, so pay is about as spread out as it is nationally.
How common the job is in Virginia
Data BLS location quotient: the occupation's share of state employment divided by its share of U.S. employment.
Data The BLS location quotient for this occupation in Virginia is 0.62, so it is less concentrated than nationally (1.00 = the same share as nationally). That is about 0.5 jobs per 1,000 jobs in the state.
Virginia vs the states it borders
Data Same occupation, same BLS release. A higher median elsewhere is not a job offer; cost of living differs.
| State | Median annual wage | vs Virginia | Employment |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | $77,520 | +15% | 340 |
| Maryland | $68,970 | +2% | 1,880 |
| Virginia | $67,580 | 1,910 | |
| North Carolina | $60,920 | -10% | 4,400 |
| Tennessee | $60,530 | -10% | 3,310 |
| Kentucky | $60,490 | -10% | 1,440 |
| West Virginia | $49,110 | -27% | 580 |
Where surgical techs earn the highest medians
Data Highest state medians among the 50 states and DC, BLS May 2025. Virginia ranks 20.
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How this page is built
BLS OEWS May 2025 state estimates for Virginia and national estimates for SOC 29-2055 (Surgical Technologists). The pay ladder compares the same five published percentiles; the difference column is the local value minus the U.S. value, divided by the U.S. value. Ranks compare published state medians across the 50 states and DC. Employment counts people working in the occupation (excluding the self-employed), not job openings. BLS publishes sampling error for these estimates: the employment estimate has a relative standard error of 4.0%. Lower is more precise; BLS does not publish a standard error for the median itself. Searches this page answers include “surgical tech salary virginia”, “how much do surgical techs make in virginia”, “how much does a surgical tech make in virginia” (Ahrefs, U.S.).
- Cost of living: wages are not adjusted for local prices.
- Pay at a specific employer, in one city, or for self-employed workers.
- Local outlook: BLS projections are national.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 state and national estimates (2018 SOC), public domain.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 estimates (public domain).
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