Patient Care Technicians vs Sterile Processing Technicians
Compare Patient Care Technicians and Sterile Processing Technicians side by side: median pay, job outlook, AI exposure, education, and top skills. Patient Care Technicians pays about $1k more.
Median pay$48k
OutlookGrowing
AI exposureLow 9%, modeled
EducationPostsecondary cert
Active ListeningReading ComprehensionSpeakingCritical ThinkingMonitoring
Median pay$48k
OutlookGrowing fast
AI exposureLow 5%, modeled
EducationPostsecondary cert
Critical ThinkingMonitoringActive ListeningReading ComprehensionSpeaking
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Pay and outlook: BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2024-2034). Skills: O*NET 30.3. AI exposure is a modeled estimate. How we model AI exposure.