Why eye care gets its own job board
Search “optical” or “technician” on a general job site and you get fiber optic installers, IT help desk roles and pharmacy techs mixed in.
A practice looking for a pre-test tech gets buried in that noise, and an optician who wants a new frame board ends up sorting through it one post at a time.
Here, every post is eye care: exam lane doctors, optical dispensary and lab roles, clinic techs and scribes, or the front office jobs that support them.
Eye care hiring also turns on details a broad board rarely captures.
Scope of practice, optician licensing and credentials like ABO or NCLE vary from one state to the next, so a role that looks the same on paper can differ a lot in practice.
The job posts, salary pages and guides on this site are built with that variation in mind.
Who runs the site
I'm Gabriel Meierotto. I started OptometryHires, and I decide what gets published on it.
The limits of what I know: I am not an eye care professional. I am not an optometrist, optician or ophthalmic tech, I hold no ABO or NCLE certification and no state license of any kind in eye care, and I have never worked in a practice or an optical.
Nothing on this site is clinical, licensing or legal advice.
My part is the job board itself: getting openings in front of the right people and explaining each role clearly.
Wherever a page covers credentials, licensing or pay, it relies on the state board, credentialing body or public dataset that publishes it, not on my view.
Questions about what your own license or certification allows belong with your state board.
How jobs land on the site
Private practices, OD-MD groups, optical chains, vision centers and recruiters can post a role directly.
The site also collects eye care roles that employers publish on their own career sites and public job feeds.
Every collected listing links to the source post, so you apply straight to the employer doing the hiring.
Featured is the one paid option that changes placement: those listings get a badge and appear above standard ones on the matching role and city pages.
No other part of the listing order is for sale.
How the guides are held to account
Licensing, credentials and pay drive many of the career choices ODs, opticians and techs make.
One bad detail can point someone toward the wrong credential or a bad offer, so every guide follows these rules:
- Claims about licensing or credentials link to the state board, credentialing organization or law they come from.
- State-by-state pages show when their details were last checked.
- Salary figures cite the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS data and list the occupation code behind each figure, since BLS groups some eye care job titles together.
- Rule changes are described in broad terms and credited to the body that made them, not turned into instructions for you.
A page says it was reviewed by a licensed or certified professional only if a named person with that credential really reviewed it.
No credentials are borrowed and no reviewers are invented.
Treat these pages as general career background.
For decisions about your own license, credentials or scope of practice, check with the board in the state where you work.
Spot an error?
State boards update rules, BLS publishes fresh wage data each year and jobs get filled, so parts of this site will go out of date.
Send the page URL and the detail that seems off to [email protected] and I'll check it and fix it.
ODs, opticians and techs usually learn about a change well before any website, so tips from them are the most useful.