Occupation / job
Hearing Aid Specialists
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
At $65,160 against a $50,020 midpoint, Hearing Aid Specialists pays $15,140 a year more than the typical American job — $7.27 an hour. Nothing pays that much more for free, and the thing it is paid for is what you should be reading about.
Nationally 11,270 people do this. That is a real occupation with a thin local presence — enough that Hearing Aid Specialists is a career, not enough that you can assume a second employer down the road.
This work suits people who want into healthcare through a specific competence rather than a general one, and who are content that the scope of the role is drawn by regulation.
How long it takes to become one of the 11,270 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.
Who should not do this
$48,390 to $80,010 — 1.7x, or $2,635 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Hearing Aid Specialists is the bottom of it rather than the middle.
At $48,390 — $23.26 an hour — the 25th percentile of this field sits essentially at the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint. Being in the bottom quarter of Hearing Aid Specialists still means being paid like the average American worker.
Avoid it if shift work in a clinical setting would not be sustainable for you over a full career.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 11,270 figure counts people already working as Hearing Aid Specialists, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
At 1.7x between $48,390 and $80,010 this is a normally shaped occupation. $65,160 is what the middle of Hearing Aid Specialists earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.
The middle half of this field earns between $48,390 and $80,010. That is $31,620 of range, with $65,160 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Between $48,390 and $80,010 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $65,160. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $14,850; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $31,620.
The fall from $65,160 to the $48,390 bottom quarter is $16,770; the climb to the $80,010 top quarter is $14,850. Slightly more of the range lies below the midpoint than above it, so the downside is the bigger movement here.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Hearing Aid Specialists is $31.32 an hour. The quarters sit at $23.26 and $38.46, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $65,160 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.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $65,160 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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