Audiologist Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

HearingHires had 503 open audiologist listings from 170 employers on November 5, 2026.

45 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 193 in the previous 30 days.

The benefit audiologist listings named most often on November 5, 2026 was paid time off, in 21.7% of listings, followed by health insurance (17.7%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all audiologist listings.

The federal figure here is for audiologists (SOC 29-1181), the BLS occupation that matches the role exactly.

The median wage for that occupation was $95,780 a year in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Audiologists (SOC 29-1181), May 2025).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $79,340 to $111,300 a year.

Employers hiring audiologists on HearingHires advertise a median of $97,000 a year across 60 employers on November 5, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

New York had the most open audiologist listings on November 5, 2026, with 36 (7.2% of the national total).

California followed with 35 (7%).

170 employers had open audiologist listings on HearingHires on November 5, 2026, and the five largest posted 44.1% of them.

119 employers (70%) had exactly one open audiologist listing.

The largest single employer, Commonwealth Medical Services, posted 20.7% of all audiologist listings, so this sample leans toward large employers.

Employers reported 13,660 audiologists on payroll in May 2025 at a median of $95,780 a year ($46.05 an hour); the count leaves out self-employed audiologists (BLS OEWS, SOC 29-1181).

BLS projects employment of audiologists, self-employed included, to grow 11.0% from 2025 to 2035, from 14,200 to 15,700 jobs, with about 600 openings a year (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

Audiologists earned a median of $103,700 a year in general medical and surgical hospitals (2,060 payroll jobs), $92,620 in offices of physicians (3,660 jobs) and $81,730 in offices of physical, occupational and speech therapists and audiologists (3,620 jobs) in May 2025 (BLS OEWS industry estimates).

In 2025 the largest employers of audiologists were offices of physicians (26%), offices of physical, occupational and speech therapists and audiologists (26%), hospitals (16%) and educational services (10%), according to the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook.

The BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook attributes projected demand for audiologists to an aging population, earlier identification of hearing disorders in infants and growing awareness of advances in hearing aid technology.

About 2.2% of audiologists were self-employed in 2025, and those practice owners are not in the BLS payroll wage figures (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

Speech-language pathologists had a slightly higher national median than audiologists in May 2025: $97,870 a year against $95,780 (BLS OEWS).

In ASHA's 2025 Audiology Survey, 46% of audiologists working in nonresidential health care facilities, such as audiology and physician offices, said there were more job openings than job seekers in their area.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid audiologist listing on HearingHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all audiologist jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

This page is published only while the live sample has at least 300 listings from 25 employers.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a group posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the other sources listed below, quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

The BLS figures on this page are for audiologists (SOC 29-1181), an exact match for the role. BLS does not report pediatric, educational, vestibular, cochlear implant or other audiology specialties separately, so listings for those specialties are counted here with all audiologists. OEWS covers payroll employees only; BLS Employment Projections include the self-employed.