Ophthalmic Technician Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

OptometryHires had 394 open ophthalmic technician listings from 66 employers on November 5, 2026.

75 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 168 in the previous 30 days.

At least 8.9% of ophthalmic technician listings were part-time on November 5, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share is likely higher.

The benefit ophthalmic technician listings named most often on November 5, 2026 was paid time off, in 40.9% of listings, followed by health insurance (26.9%).

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

To browse the openings themselves, see all ophthalmic technician listings.

BLS publishes no ophthalmic technician-only wage, so the figure here is for ophthalmic medical technicians (SOC 29-2057), the exact BLS occupation.

The median wage for that occupation was $45,570 a year in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Ophthalmic Medical Technicians (SOC 29-2057), May 2025).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $38,170 to $51,390 a year.

Employers hiring ophthalmic technicians on OptometryHires advertise a median of $21.25 an hour across 14 employers on November 5, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

Texas had the most open ophthalmic technician listings on November 5, 2026, with 27 (6.9% of the national total).

To browse the openings in one state, start with ophthalmic technician openings in Texas.

66 employers had open ophthalmic technician listings on OptometryHires on November 5, 2026, and the five largest posted 41.9% of them.

20 employers (30.3%) had exactly one open ophthalmic technician listing.

Employers reported 71,010 ophthalmic medical technicians on payroll in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, SOC 29-2057).

38,900 of those technicians worked in offices of physicians in May 2025, at a median of $47,200 a year (BLS OEWS industry estimates, NAICS 621100).

BLS projects ophthalmic medical technician employment to grow 21.4% from 2025 to 2035, from 72,500 to 88,000 jobs, with about 11,800 openings a year (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

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

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all ophthalmic technician 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.

BLS counts ophthalmic medical technicians in one occupation (SOC 29-2057). OEWS covers payroll employees only.