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

OptometryHires had 522 open optometric technician listings from 53 employers on November 5, 2026.

136 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 321 in the previous 30 days.

At least 26.2% of optometric 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 optometric technician listings named most often on November 5, 2026 was paid time off, in 75.3% of listings, followed by health insurance (34.5%).

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

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

BLS publishes no optometric technician-only wage, so the figure here is for ophthalmic medical technicians in offices of optometrists (SOC 29-2057, NAICS 621320), the closest available BLS group (BLS has no optometric-technician occupation).

The median wage for that occupation was $38,650 a year in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Ophthalmic Medical Technicians (SOC 29-2057) in Offices of Optometrists (NAICS 621320), May 2025).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $36,030 to $45,970 a year.

Employers hiring optometric technicians on OptometryHires advertise a median of $17.25 an hour across 20 employers on November 5, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

Ohio had the most open optometric technician listings on November 5, 2026, with 50 (9.6% of the national total).

Florida followed with 36 (6.9%).

53 employers had open optometric technician listings on OptometryHires on November 5, 2026, and the five largest posted 64% of them.

29 employers (54.7%) had exactly one open optometric technician listing.

BLS has no occupation code for optometric technicians or assistants; the closest available group is ophthalmic medical technicians (SOC 29-2057) working in offices of optometrists.

Employers reported 22,900 ophthalmic medical technicians in offices of optometrists in May 2025, at a median of $38,650 a year (BLS OEWS industry estimates, SOC 29-2057, NAICS 621320).

BLS does not project optometric technicians separately; for ophthalmic medical technicians in all settings (SOC 29-2057) it projects 21.4% employment growth from 2025 to 2035, with about 11,800 openings a year (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid optometric 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 optometric 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 has no optometric-technician occupation. The figures on this page are ophthalmic medical technicians (SOC 29-2057) employed in offices of optometrists (NAICS 621320), the closest available group, and are labelled that way.