Salary and Outlook

According to the US Department of Labor, there are 11,300 people employed as hearing aid specialists in the United States. The median annual salary is $59,500. Entry level employees earn approximately $33,040 per year and senior employees earn approximately $84,150 per year.

Estimates do not include other potential benefits such as health insurance, overtime pay, or retirement benefits that may be offered by employers.

Job Duties

• Counsel patients and families on communication strategies and the effects of hearing loss.
• Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.
• Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.
• Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.
• Perform basic screening procedures, such as pure tone screening, otoacoustic screening, immittance screening, and screening of ear canal status using otoscope.
• Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.
• Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in audiology.
• Demonstrate assistive listening devices (ALDs) to clients.
• Assist audiologists in performing aural procedures, such as real ear measurements, speech audiometry, auditory brainstem responses, electronystagmography, and cochlear implant mapping.
• Diagnose and treat hearing or related disabilities under the direction of an audiologist.
• Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.

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