Audiologists Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($61,930) to the 90th ($129,830). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

With 14,730 jobs nationally, Audiologists make up 0.01% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 1,370 of those jobs, the top three states hold 24.7%, and the deepest concentration sits in Ohio (location quotient 2.48, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $67,900 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($129,830) is 2.1 times the 10th percentile ($61,930), a gap of $67,900 a year. The mean of $95,320 sitting above the median of $92,120 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

The state spread for Audiologists runs from the $123,600 median in California down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (1,370 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Audiologists stands number 613 by employment and number 158 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, the group median wage is $98,340 across 71 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 6% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 9,592,720 jobs. In 19 of the 47 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $92,120, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA is the largest metro employer with 800 jobs, 5.4% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $93,250 a year, against $117,670 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $92,120 a year is $7,677 a month gross, $3,543 every two weeks, $1,772 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($76,440) to the 75th ($109,330) is worth $32,890 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $7,677 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $101,332 would sit between the median ($92,120) and the 75th percentile ($109,330), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $76,440, is $15,680 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

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