Medical Equipment Preparers
SOC 31-9093 · 2024-2034
Prepare, sterilize, install, or clean laboratory or healthcare equipment. May perform routine laboratory tasks and operate or inspect equipment.
How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.
The job this trains for
- Typical pay in California
- $62,924per year
- Projected openings
- 14,020
- Projected change
- +16.3%
- Usually needs
- High school diploma or equivalent
Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth
The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.
Skills this work uses most
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.
- Critical Thinking
- Monitoring
- Quality Control Analysis
- Operations Monitoring
- Active Listening
- Reading Comprehension
Pay by region
| Region | Typical pay in California | Projected openings |
|---|---|---|
| San Rafael MD (Marin County) | $85,583 | 90 |
| Vallejo MSA (Solano County) | $84,403 | 300 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties) | $84,023 | 660 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties) | $83,574 | 890 |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County) | $82,089 | 70 |
| Napa MSA (Napa County) | $80,999 | 50 |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties) | $80,763 | 760 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties) | $78,747 | 1,160 |
| Redding MSA (Shasta County) | $76,104 | 70 |
| Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County) | $71,682 | 230 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County) | $67,198 | 880 |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County) | $66,694 | 80 |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County) | $63,156 | 330 |
| Salinas MSA (Monterey County) | $62,364 | 130 |
| Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County) | $61,613 | 190 |
| Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County) | $60,874 | 1,140 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) | $60,750 | 3,020 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) | $59,834 | 1,220 |
| North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties) | $59,299 | 50 |
| Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties) | $58,127 | 40 |
| Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County) | $54,353 | 240 |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County) | $53,705 | 90 |
| Chico MSA (Butte County) | $52,759 | 130 |
| Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties) | $52,090 | 50 |
| North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties) | $50,990 | 90 |
| Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties) | $49,982 | 420 |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County) | $48,151 | 240 |
Similar work
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.
| The job this trains for | Typical pay in California | Projected openings | Projected change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgical Technologists | $83,586 | 8,420 | +11.6% |
| Healthcare Support Workers, All Other | $50,374 | 32,750 | +7.1% |
| Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians | $80,358 | 4,280 | +15.5% |
| Calibration Technologists and Technicians | $81,222 | 1,070 | 0% |
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