Anonymous self-reported annual base salaries.
Pulled from job listings — may not reflect actual take-home pay.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics + live market data. Context only — not a replacement for the datasets above.
Optometrist base pay varies sharply by setting — corporate-affiliated and hospital-employed roles typically run higher in starting base, while private-practice associate roles often add production bonuses on top. B-Seen's clinical dataset breaks median compensation down by state and setting (corporate, private, hospital, academic, federal) so you can compare apples to apples instead of seeing a national blended number that doesn't apply to where you actually work.
Reported pay is anonymously submitted by working ODs, OMDs, opticians, and techs and reflects what they actually take home including production bonuses, sign-on, and ownership equity. Advertised pay is parsed from public job postings — the range an employer is willing to put on a listing. The two are displayed side by side, never blended. Read the full methodology at /methodology.
Yes. Optician, ophthalmic technician (COA, COT, COMT), optometric tech, frame stylist, scribe, and front-desk roles are first-class in the clinical dataset with their own hourly rate field. Hourly pay is never auto-converted to annualized salary on the page — the unit you submitted is the unit displayed.
OMD submissions include an optional subspecialty field. When a subspecialty slice has at least the minimum sample threshold, it surfaces as its own median; otherwise it's rolled into the broader OMD aggregate to protect contributor anonymity.
