Travel Surg Tech · San Francisco–Oakland, CA · Q3 2026
Travel Surgical Technologist pay benchmark in San Francisco–Oakland, CA
Modeled weekly gross wage benchmark
Pre-tax model on a 36-hour week after a disclosed 30% agency-margin assumption. It excludes travel and housing stipends, overtime, shift differentials, bonuses, benefits, and reimbursements. Not a package quote, paycheck, or job offer. How we compute this →
As of 2026-07-19, PayBeacon’s travel Surgical Technologist benchmark for San Francisco–Oakland, CA is $1,655/week before tax, modeled from May 2025 BLS wages and FY2024 CMS contract-labor filings; it excludes stipends and premium-pay components.
What this benchmark says
- San Francisco–Oakland, CA ranks #21 of 116 covered metros for travel Surg Tech modeled gross wages.
- San Francisco–Oakland, CA is 22.3% above the matching CA Surg Tech state benchmark of $1,353/week. Open the state benchmark.
- The modeled p25–p75 band spans $634/week, or 38.3% of the point estimate.
- The state contract premium uses 249 valid hospital filings, a broad sample by PayBeacon’s published thresholds.
- The latest validated source release changed the benchmark by −$126/week (-7.1%) from the prior published snapshot.
- Modeled hourly wage
- $45.96pre-tax · 36-hour week
- Blended facility contract cost
- $65.66derived from direct-patient-care contract costs in CMS filings
- Local staff wage
- $47.79median for staff in this metro, BLS
- Contract premium
- 1.37×contract vs staff, CA state · 249 hospitals
- OEWS employment
- 1,440staff jobs in the BLS sample
- Metro rank
- #21 of 116covered metros for Surg Tech
- Difference from state
- +22.3%benchmark is 22.3% above CA ($1,353/wk)
Each point is a validated government-source snapshot published on the date shown. This is release history—not a live-job-rate time series.
Vintages — BLS OEWS: May 2025 · CMS HCRIS: FY2024 · State caps: CY2026. Materially updated 2026-07-19. Premium computed from 249 hospital filings (CA state). This is an allied role — the contract premium is nursing-anchored, so treat the estimate as directional.
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