Hearing Instrument Specialist Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

HearingHires had 513 open hearing instrument specialist listings from 41 employers on November 5, 2026.

43 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 81 in the previous 30 days.

The benefit hearing instrument specialist listings named most often on November 5, 2026 was paid time off, in 86.2% of listings, followed by health insurance (78.4%).

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

To browse the openings themselves, see all hearing instrument specialist listings.

The federal figure here is for hearing aid specialists (SOC 29-2092), the BLS occupation for hearing instrument specialists and hearing aid dispensers.

The median wage for that occupation was $65,160 a year in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Hearing Aid Specialists (SOC 29-2092), May 2025).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $48,390 to $80,010 a year.

Employers hiring hearing instrument specialists on HearingHires advertise a median of $72,500 a year across 15 employers on November 5, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

Florida had the most open hearing instrument specialist listings on November 5, 2026, with 32 (6.2% of the national total).

To browse the openings in one state, start with hearing instrument specialist openings in Florida.

41 employers had open hearing instrument specialist listings on HearingHires on November 5, 2026, and the five largest posted 87.5% of them.

28 employers (68.3%) had exactly one open hearing instrument specialist listing.

The largest single employer, Costco Hearing Aid Centers, posted 65.1% of all hearing instrument specialist listings, so this sample leans toward large employers.

BLS counts hearing instrument specialists in hearing aid specialists (SOC 29-2092), workers who select and fit hearing aids, give and interpret hearing tests and take ear impressions; audiologists are counted separately.

Employers reported 11,270 hearing aid specialists on payroll in May 2025 at a median of $65,160 a year ($31.33 an hour); the count leaves out the self-employed (BLS OEWS, SOC 29-2092).

BLS projects employment of hearing aid specialists, self-employed included, to grow 19.4% from 2025 to 2035, from 11,200 to 13,400 jobs, with about 900 openings a year (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

Hearing aid specialists earned a median of $77,310 a year at general merchandise retailers (3,640 payroll jobs), $65,530 at health and personal care retailers (3,820 jobs) and $59,990 in offices of physical, occupational and speech therapists and audiologists (2,250 jobs) in May 2025 (BLS OEWS industry estimates).

BLS lists the typical entry-level education for hearing aid specialists as a high school diploma or equivalent, with moderate-term on-the-job training (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

Only about 0.5% of hearing aid specialists were self-employed in 2025 (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

The BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook has no detailed profile for hearing aid specialists; it publishes only summary figures for the occupation on its page for occupations not covered in detail.

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

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all hearing instrument specialist 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 hearing aid specialists (SOC 29-2092), the occupation that covers hearing instrument specialists and hearing aid dispensers; hearing aid apprentice listings are counted with this role. OEWS covers payroll employees only, and BLS Employment Projections include the self-employed. The two are separate estimates, which is why the 2025 projections base (11,200) sits slightly below the May 2025 payroll count (11,270).