Occupation / job
Audiologists
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
$95,780 is $3,813 a month above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Differences of that size in Audiologists are held in place by a barrier — a licence, a residency, a clearance — and the barrier is the real subject of this page.
13,660 people work as Audiologists. That is enough for a functioning national market and not enough for a functioning local one — in most metros this is a few employers rather than a field you can move around inside.
This work suits people prepared to spend years qualifying for a scope of practice they then hold for the rest of a career, with the accountability that comes attached to it.
We carry no verified training length for Audiologists — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
Between $79,340 and $111,300 there is $31,960, a ratio of 1.4x. Tight distributions are predictable, and predictable cuts both ways: little risk of being badly underpaid, little prospect of doing much better.
The 25th percentile is $79,340, $29,320 above the $50,020 typical American job. When even the floor is this high, the thing to investigate is the entry requirement rather than the pay.
Avoid it if you cannot do nights, cannot carry medico-legal exposure, or need to be finished thinking about work when the shift ends.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 13,660 people employed as Audiologists; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.
What the spread tells you
Top quarter to bottom quarter is 1.4x. In a band that narrow, $95,780 is a genuinely representative number for Audiologists and the main variable left is where you live.
Put in money rather than ratios: $79,340 at the 25th percentile, $95,780 at the midpoint, $111,300 at the 75th. $31,960 separates the quarter of Audiologists at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $111,300. Reaching it from the $95,780 midpoint is $15,520 a year; reaching it from the $79,340 that the bottom quarter of Audiologists earn is $31,960.
The fall from $95,780 to the $79,340 bottom quarter is $16,440; the climb to the $111,300 top quarter is $15,520. Slightly more of the range lies below the midpoint than above it, so the downside is the bigger movement here.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $46.04 at the midpoint for Audiologists, $38.14 at the 25th percentile and $53.50 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $95,780 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Audiologists, the hourly figure is $95,780 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
How this is calculated · Self-employment failure rates · What credentials cost and pay back · Look up something else