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SUMMARY
Minimal Risk
19%
JOB SCORE
5.4/10
CALCULATED
19%
(Minimal Risk)
POLLING
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GROWTH
by year 2032
6.4%
WAGES
$59,160
or $28.44 per hour
VOLUME
as of 2023
18,780
SNOWFLAKE
Snowflake diagram for Surgical Assistants
DECRIPTION Assist in operations, under the supervision of surgeons. May, in accordance with state laws, help surgeons to make incisions and close surgical sites, manipulate or remove tissues, implant surgical devices or drains, suction the surgical site, place catheters, clamp or cauterize vessels or tissue, and apply dressings to surgical site.