The short answer
GasWork has been the default place to look for anesthesia work since 1996, and it still carries the most CRNA listings of any single site. Posting is free for hospitals and groups, so that volume is real. The tradeoff is that GasWork is built around the posts themselves: detail varies from one listing to the next, a fair number come from staffing agencies, and you reach an employer by sending an inquiry rather than applying through a profile.
crna.jobs is organized differently. Every listing follows the same format, with the facility, employment type, setting, and pay shown the same way each time, and you apply once from a saved profile. You don't have to choose between them. Plenty of CRNAs skim GasWork for breadth and run the search itself on crna.jobs.
Where GasWork is stronger
There's a reason GasWork is still the reference point. It has focused on anesthesia and nothing else since 1996, and after nearly three decades it holds the deepest catalog of CRNA listings anywhere. When a recruiter or group decides where to post an anesthesia job, GasWork is usually the first name that comes up.
Part of that reach comes down to price. Hospitals and anesthesia groups post for free, while agencies and firms pay, which keeps a steady stream of roles flowing in from across the country. The site also covers the basics well. You can post a CV for recruiters to find, including anonymously if you'd rather not signal that you're looking, and the free mobile apps make it easy to keep half an eye on the market between cases.
Where GasWork falls short for job search
The flip side of an open, posting-driven board is that quality is uneven. Some listings spell out the facility, the pay range, and the call schedule; others are little more than an agency teaser, and you won't know which until you've emailed to ask. Because several agencies can advertise the same opening, you'll also run into the same job more than once. GasWork is candid about this in its own help pages, noting that a single agency may "overpost" one role with slight rewording. There's a compare tool to sort it out, but that's still time spent on bookkeeping rather than on the job.
The contact model is dated, too. You send an inquiry to whoever placed the post and manage the back-and-forth from there. There's no single view of where each of your applications stands, which starts to matter once you're talking to more than a handful of employers.
Where CRNA Jobs is stronger
Where GasWork is broad and freeform, crna.jobs is deliberately consistent. Every posting is reviewed and laid out the same way, so the facility (or the city, when an employer asks to stay confidential), the employment type, the setting, and the pay range all sit where you expect them. That makes it possible to compare two roles honestly instead of decoding two very different ads.
The search works the same way. You can filter by location, employment type, and setting, save a search, and have new matches emailed to you each week. Applying takes one click against a saved resume, and your applications live in a single dashboard that shows what you've sent and whether a recruiter has opened it.
The profile has a privacy-first side as well. Signing up adds you to a candidate pool as an NPI-verified CRNA, and recruiters will be able to approach you with specific roles while your name, current employer, and contact details stay hidden until you choose to answer. For anyone weighing locum offers, the take-home pay calculator estimates after-tax pay in any of the 50 states, so you can compare contracts on equal footing.
What you give up with CRNA Jobs
None of this means crna.jobs replaces GasWork today. GasWork has a long head start: a bigger back catalog, an established CV database that recruiters already check, and listings in parts of the country where we're still building. If you're searching one of those areas, you'll simply find fewer roles here for now, though the ones you do find will be detailed and current.
Should you use both?
For most people, yes. GasWork is worth a periodic scan for sheer coverage, since an agency or a hospital may post something there before it reaches us. Run the search itself on crna.jobs, where you can filter, set alerts, apply in a click, and check offers against the calculator.
It's worth clearing up one common assumption: GasWork is a job board, not a community. If you want other CRNAs' read on a facility or a recruiter, that conversation tends to happen on Reddit or Student Doctor Network rather than on GasWork itself.
Our recommendation
If you're actively looking, start on crna.jobs. Filter to your target states and the kind of work you want, save those searches, and set up an NPI-verified profile so recruiters will be able to reach you without your search becoming public. Use the calculator to compare locum offers before you commit.
Keep GasWork in the rotation for breadth. It still lists more than anyone, so a regular pass makes sense. Just be ready to email a poster for the details a listing leaves out.