Hearing Aid Specialists salary

SOC 29-2092 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$65,160

per year, nationally

Middle half

$48,390–$80,010

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

11,270

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+18.4%

1,000 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$38,400$94,020

10th: $38,400
25th: $48,390
Median: $65,160
75th: $80,010
90th: $94,020

Getting in

Typical education to enter: High school diploma or equivalent
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: Moderate-term on-the-job training

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where hearing aid specialists earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	New York	$82,990	107.9	380	0.54×
2	Nevada	$81,800	100.0	60	0.57×
3	California	$80,060	110.7	990	0.75×
4	Tennessee	$78,270	91.9	190	0.80×
5	Colorado	$77,540	103.1	140	0.66×
6	Washington	$77,510	107.0	280	1.07×
7	Maryland	$77,460	105.0	50	0.26×
8	Wisconsin	$76,750	94.1	170	0.81×
9	Arizona	$76,750	100.7	110	0.48×
10	North Carolina	$75,810	94.3	240	0.67×
11	New Jersey	$75,720	108.8	470	1.51×
12	Massachusetts	$75,310	105.8	—	—
13	Virginia	$75,300	101.1	210	0.72×
14	Alaska	$75,300	102.4	30	1.48×
15	Idaho	$75,300	95.5	160	2.50×
16	Montana	$75,300	94.6	60	1.66×
17	Kentucky	$75,200	90.2	100	0.67×
18	Hawaii	$74,800	110.0	90	1.91×
19	Connecticut	$74,520	103.6	110	0.90×
20	New Mexico	$74,510	92.2	40	0.59×
21	Florida	$67,010	103.4	1,150	1.60×
22	Oregon	$66,350	103.4	170	1.16×
23	Louisiana	$64,580	88.2	80	0.59×
24	Illinois	$63,050	100.0	360	0.81×
25	Ohio	$62,680	92.8	260	0.66×
26	Minnesota	$61,390	98.6	530	2.47×
27	Indiana	$60,900	93.3	310	1.34×
28	Iowa	$59,550	87.8	200	1.81×
29	Delaware	$59,160	99.8	—	—
30	Texas	$59,140	97.1	970	0.95×
31	Pennsylvania	$58,080	97.6	870	1.97×
32	Utah	$57,940	98.9	200	1.60×
33	Vermont	$57,850	98.0	—	—
34	Georgia	$56,010	96.3	320	0.90×
35	Michigan	$55,100	96.2	460	1.45×
36	South Dakota	$54,910	88.6	—	—
37	Missouri	$51,680	90.8	210	0.97×
38	Oklahoma	$47,840	87.8	80	0.67×
39	South Carolina	$47,190	93.7	220	1.31×
40	Kansas	$46,820	90.1	100	0.94×
41	Alabama	$46,530	88.8	50	0.29×
42	Nebraska	$45,660	90.1	90	1.21×
43	West Virginia	$35,110	89.5	50	0.89×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where hearing aid specialists wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for hearing aid specialists

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	$91,010	96.3	80	0.98×
2	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$86,090	110.4	40	0.49×
3	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$83,930	115.6	100	0.57×
4	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$82,800	97.9	—	—
5	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$81,770	111.9	50	0.48×
6	Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL	$81,140	102.3	100	4.59×
7	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$80,050	113.6	480	1.06×
8	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$78,830	102.7	30	0.73×
9	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$78,830	111.1	150	1.02×
10	North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL	$78,620	102.4	50	2.18×
11	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$76,990	98.2	50	0.90×
12	Lexington-Fayette, KY	$76,750	92.9	30	1.53×
13	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$76,750	96.9	70	1.22×
14	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$75,830	104.5	30	0.31×
15	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$75,830	105.8	110	0.95×
16	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$75,720	112.6	590	0.86×
17	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$75,310	108.3	—	—
18	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	$75,300	100.9	—	—
19	Urban Honolulu, HI	$75,300	111.0	60	1.73×
20	Jacksonville, FL	$75,300	99.5	60	1.14×
21	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$75,300	108.9	90	0.41×
22	Boise City, ID	$75,300	98.4	80	2.87×
23	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$75,020	105.4	90	1.03×
24	Columbus, OH	$71,120	95.5	50	0.62×
25	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$69,320	103.6	200	0.60×
26	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$67,420	103.1	200	0.68×
27	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$65,640	95.7	100	1.24×
28	Richmond, VA	$65,170	97.9	30	0.67×
29	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$64,840	101.8	40	0.69×
30	Fort Wayne, IN	$64,510	92.6	40	2.38×
31	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	$64,430	114.2	—	—
32	Lancaster, PA	$64,280	98.3	70	3.85×
33	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	$63,920	91.7	50	1.58×
34	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	$63,300	94.7	100	1.28×
35	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$63,290	95.4	60	0.72×
36	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$63,260	97.3	90	0.87×
37	Knoxville, TN	$62,790	92.6	40	1.41×
38	Cleveland, OH	$62,680	93.9	60	0.79×
39	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	$62,170	101.4	150	1.50×
40	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$61,980	102.6	330	1.58×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where hearing aid specialists wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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