2021 Annual Salary, Salary Range, and Highest Paying States
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Dispensing Opticians
design, measure, fit, and adapt lenses and frames for client according to written optical prescription or specification. Assist client with inserting, removing, and caring for contact lenses. Assist client with selecting frames. Measure customer for size of eyeglasses and coordinate frames with facial and eye measurements and optical prescription. Prepare work order for optical laboratory containing instructions for grinding and mounting lenses in frames. Verify exactness of finished lens spectacles. Adjust frame and lens position to fit client. May shape or reshape frames. Includes contact lens opticians.
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Average salary
Starting salary
Entry-level Dispensing Opticians with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $26,080 to $30,540 per year or $13 to $15 per hour. Similar to any other job, their salary will increase as they gain experience.
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Salary rank
We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of Dispensing Opticians to all the other careers out there. So we created Salary Rank. We compared the salary of all careers then we gave them a rank of A, B, C, or D depending on where their average salary sit in comparison to other careers.
Salary range
| Level | Hourly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Highest (Top 10%) | $30 | $62,180 |
| Senior (Top 25%) | $24 | $50,150 |
| Middle (Mid 50%) | $19 | $38,530 |
| Junior (Bottom 25%) | $15 | $30,540 |
| No experience (Bottom 10%) | $13 | $26,080 |
[custom_headline id=”states” class=”subheading” type=”left” level=”h3″] Highest paying states [/custom_headline]
| State | Hourly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| NJ | $30 | $63,300 |
| CT | $30 | $62,170 |
| AK | $28 | $57,480 |
| NY | $26 | $53,130 |
| DC | $25 | $52,210 |
| MA | $24 | $50,670 |
| CA | $24 | $49,220 |
| HI | $24 | $49,070 |
| VT | $24 | $48,920 |
| WA | $23 | $47,710 |
Another simple way to increase your salary as a Dispensing Optician is to move to a higher paying state. However moving to a higher paying state like NJ doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the expenses at NJ might be much higher than where you are currently living at right now.
According to BLS, the highest paid Dispensing Opticians are in the states of NJ, CT, AK, NY and DC.
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