Jobs / Healthcare / 31-1132.00
Orderlies
Transport patients to areas such as operating rooms or x-ray rooms using wheelchairs, stretchers, or moveable beds. May maintain stocks of supplies or clean and transport equipment. Psychiatric orderlies are included in Psychiatric Aides.
- US jobs
- 52,440
- Median wage
- $38,290 a year
- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of orderlies?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Healthcare:
- Task levelPartialOne benchmark, from early 2025. On Stanford's MedAgentBench, where agents do clinical tasks in a simulated electronic health record, the best recorded model completes 69.7% of tasks (Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2). It has no maintained leaderboard, so newer models are not measured. No benchmark in our collection tests work with patients.
- Project levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. GDPval includes nurses among its 44 occupations. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons across all occupations. No benchmark in our collection tests clinical work over days, such as managing a patient's care.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in healthcare, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Lift or assist others to lift patients to move them on or off beds, examination tables, surgical tables, or stretchers.
- Transport patients to treatment units, testing units, operating rooms, or other areas, using wheelchairs, stretchers, or moveable beds.
- Disinfect or sterilize equipment or supplies, using germicides or sterilizing equipment.
- Clean equipment, such as wheelchairs, hospital beds, or portable medical equipment, documenting needed repairs or maintenance.
- Respond to emergency situations, such as emergency medical calls, security calls, or fire alarms.
- Change soiled linens, such as bed linens, drapes, or cubicle curtains.
- Carry messages or documents between departments.
- Transport portable medical equipment or medical supplies between rooms or departments.
- Clean and sanitize patient rooms, bathrooms, examination rooms, or other patient areas.
- Collect and transport infectious or hazardous waste in closed containers for sterilization or disposal, in accordance with applicable law, standards, or policies.
- Transport specimens, laboratory items, or pharmacy items, ensuring proper documentation and delivery to authorized personnel.
- Collect soiled linen or trash.
Other job titles for this occupation (42)
Attendant · Operating Room Assistant · Orderly · Patient Care Assistant (PCA) · Patient Care Technician (PCT) · Patient Escort · Patient Transporter · Radiology Transporter · Transporter · Cart Attendant · Clinical Support Associate · Emergency Room Orderly · Hospice Entrance Attendant · Hospital Corpsman · Hospital Orderly · Infirmary Attendant · Institutional Aide · Medical Orderly · Medical Transporter · New Patient Escort · Operating Room Aide · Operating Room Orderly · Patient Care Associate · Patient Observer · Patient Safety Attendant · Patient Sitter · Patient Transport Aide · Patient Transport Orderly · PCT PRN (Patient Care Technician Pro Re Nata) · Psychiatric Orderly · Radiology Aide · Radiology Orderly · Security Orderly · Surgical Orderly · Transport Aide · Transport Technician (Transport Tech) · Transportation Aide · Transporter PRN (Transporter Pro Re Nata) · Ward Aide · Ward Assistant · Ward Attendant · Ward Helper