There is no official audiology assistant salary in federal data: the Bureau of Labor Statistics does not count the role as its own occupation.
The closest anchors are ASHA's small 2025 assistant survey, which reported a median $20.67 an hour, and two broad BLS catch-all categories, which posted medians of $23.28 and $24.18 an hour in May 2025.
Setting and state then move the market around those anchors; experience is a lever the federal data does not measure.
Average hourly pay: the survey figure and the closest BLS categories
Audiology assistants have no Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation of their own.
ASHA notes that the role is not specifically listed in the BLS O*NET database, so there is no assistant-specific median, mean or percentile anywhere in federal wage data.
The title itself varies: in ASHA's 2025 survey, 42% of audiology assistant respondents reported working under the title Audiology Assistant and 23% under Audiology Technician.
None of the numbers on this page separates the titles, because the role has no BLS occupation under any of them.
The one dataset we found that describes the job title directly is ASHA's 2025 Audiology Assistant Survey, and it is small.
Hourly respondents — 17 of them — reported a median rate of $20.67 an hour, with a range of $14.50 to $34.00.
Salaried respondents (six) reported a median of $50,000 a year.
Read those numbers as a snapshot of a small survey, not as market pay.
Federal context comes from two broad catch-all categories in the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey, May 2025 release, national.
OEWS counts wage-and-salary workers only; the self-employed are excluded.
| Closest BLS category (proxy) | Median hourly | Median annual | Mean annual | Annual 10th–90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healthcare Support Workers, All Other (SOC 31-9099) | $23.28 | $48,430 | $50,810 | $34,770–$71,470 |
| Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other (SOC 29-2099) | $24.18 | $50,290 | $58,710 | $38,180–$85,270 |
Both categories collect the workers BLS does not count in a named occupation, so neither row describes audiology assistants alone.
Employment of 109,740 and 182,610 counts everyone in each catch-all, not assistants.
Use the rows as background when you judge an offer.
The figure that counts is the one on the posting.
Proxy data, not posted pay
Pay by setting: the BLS industry rows
BLS cannot split assistant pay by hearing-care setting, because there is no assistant occupation to split.
What it does publish is the same 31-9099 category by industry, and those rows are the closest verified read on how a setting moves support-worker pay.
Every row below is the same occupation category in the same May 2025 national release, so the comparison is like-for-like.
| Industry row, SOC 31-9099 (proxy) | Median annual | Employment |
|---|---|---|
| General merchandise retailers (includes warehouse clubs) | $61,610 | 930 |
| Offices of physical, occupational and speech therapists, and audiologists | $56,470 | 6,800 |
| Elementary and secondary schools | $50,500 | 10,090 |
| Offices of other health practitioners | $48,670 | 9,790 |
| Outpatient care centers | $48,630 | 3,370 |
| Offices of physicians (the row that includes ENT groups) | $45,770 | 5,840 |
| Health and personal care retailers | $44,460 | 460 |
| All industries, national | $48,430 | 109,740 |
Among the rows shown, the general merchandise retailers row ran the highest median, but it counts only 930 workers.
Among the health care rows, the offices-of-therapists-and-audiologists row ran highest, ahead of physicians' offices and above the category's all-industry median.
BLS also publishes a hospital row for the same category, with the largest employment of any industry row at 22,980, and its median ran below every office row shown.
In the table itself, the health and personal care retailers row ran the lowest median, on an employment estimate of only 460.
Keep two caveats attached.
The therapists-and-audiologists row mixes audiology offices with physical, occupational and speech therapy offices, so it is not audiology-only, and its employment estimate of 6,800 carries an 11.6% relative standard error.
Assistants do work across several settings: in ASHA's 2025 survey, private practice was the most common primary employer of assistant respondents (11 of 25, 44%), followed by hospitals (20%) and nonresidential health care settings such as ENT offices (20%), and ASHA's career materials say assistants may also work in schools, clinics, private practice, VA facilities and military bases, as state law allows.
Where each setting fits, and how supervision works, is covered in the audiology assistant career guide.
One listing-level caution: a posting shows one employer's number for one opening, never a setting's average.
Compare offers side by side.
Industry rows, not assistant wages
Certified vs uncertified pay
ASHA's credential for this role is the C-AA — Certified Audiology Assistant — established under ASHA's 2020 standards for audiology assistants certification.
It is a national, voluntary credential.
ASHA states that it is not interchangeable with state licensing laws and does not automatically qualify the holder for state licensure or registration.
The credential also has a price.
ASHA listed the initial C-AA certification fee at US$249, which includes the exam, and annual renewal at US$125, due December 31, on its certification pages in 2026.
Does certification move pay?
Our research did not find pay data that splits audiology assistant earnings by certification status, so no verified premium figure exists.
No employer, survey or association source we read published a certified-versus-uncertified comparison either.
The honest summary: the C-AA's cost and voluntary status are documented, and its pay effect is simply not measured in anything we can cite.
Whether any employer rewards the credential is stated in that employer's posting.
Ask how certification factors into the starting rate before you accept.
Certification is not a state credential
Audiology assistant pay by state
There is no audiology-assistant wage line in BLS state data — the role has no occupation code at any level — and our research found no state that publishes an assistant-specific wage either.
Reading postings state by state would not fix that: a listing shows one employer's figure for one opening, which is never a state average.
The comparable state-level numbers are the same 31-9099 proxy category, which BLS publishes at state level in the May 2025 release.
| State (SOC 31-9099 proxy) | Median hourly | Median annual |
|---|---|---|
| Washington | $29.83 | $62,040 |
| New York | $27.17 | $56,510 |
| Arizona | $24.01 | $49,940 |
| New Jersey | $23.85 | $49,600 |
| California | $23.62 | $49,130 |
| Illinois | $23.25 | $48,360 |
| North Carolina | $22.64 | $47,080 |
| Georgia | $22.48 | $46,750 |
| Florida | $21.97 | $45,700 |
| Texas | $21.76 | $45,250 |
| Ohio | $20.97 | $43,620 |
| Michigan | $19.36 | $40,280 |
| U.S., all industries | $23.28 | $48,430 |
Each row is the median for everyone BLS counted in the category in that state, not for audiology assistants alone.
The twelve states above are a selection, not the highest- or lowest-paying; the May 2025 release carries the category for every state, so a state missing from this table was simply not selected.
Weigh a state figure against local costs rather than against the national median alone.
The number that decides anything is still the one on your offer.
For the two hearing-care occupations BLS does count exactly — audiologists and hearing instrument specialists — our hearing care industry statistics pull the federal figures together.
The path to higher audiology assistant pay
The verified levers start with the setting.
Within the proxy category, the industry-row medians shown above ran from $44,460 to $61,610 in May 2025 — a like-for-like read on how much setting moves support-worker pay.
Among the health care rows, the offices-of-therapists-and-audiologists row ran above the hospitals row, the physicians' offices row and the category's all-industry median.
Experience is the second lever, and honesty about the data matters here: our research holds no verified wage curve by years of experience for this role, so treat any such curve you see elsewhere as unproven.
What you can document is competence.
Build a record across the tasks your supervising audiologist can delegate in your state, because documented competencies are the part of experience an employer can verify.
Certification is the third lever, with known costs and an unmeasured payoff: US$249 to start, US$125 a year to renew, voluntary throughout, and no verified premium attached to it.
When an offer lands, ask for the full picture: the posted range, how experience and certification factor into the starting rate, and when pay reviews happen.
Those answers come from the employer, not from any national table.
Career information, not medical, legal or tax advice. The BLS rows are May 2025 catch-all categories, the ASHA figures come from a small survey, and each employer sets its own pay — confirm state requirements with your state board and current pay with the posting.