Healthcare Practitioners and Technical
Hearing Aid Specialists
Select and fit hearing aids for customers. Administer and interpret tests of hearing. Assess hearing instrument efficacy. Take ear impressions and prepare, design, and modify ear molds.
Also called: Audioprosthologist, Hearing Aid Consultant, Hearing Aid Specialist, Hearing Care Practitioner, Hearing Care Specialist, Hearing Instrument Dispenser
- Median pay in Greater Boston
- $75,310
- $36.21/hr
- Jobs in Greater Boston
- Not published
- Massachusetts 2024–2034
- +13.4%
- 20 openings a year
- Typical U.S. entry requirement
- High school diploma or equivalent
- plus Moderate-term on-the-job training
Greater Boston: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, May 2025. Growth and openings: Massachusetts statewide projection.
Pay range in Greater Boston
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $46,290 | $67,280 | $75,310 | $80,010 | $80,030 |
10% of workers earn less than the first figure and 10% earn more than the last.
What you’d do
- Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.
- Counsel patients and families on communication strategies and the effects of hearing loss.
- Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.
- Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.
- Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.
- Perform basic screening procedures, such as pure tone screening, otoacoustic screening, immittance screening, and screening of ear canal status using otoscope.
AI and this job
AI exposure: how much of this job’s work AI tools can do or help with, based on national research. It is not a forecast of job loss.
Moderate exposure44 of 100
The index averages three national research measures, each shown as a percentile of all jobs:
- AIOE 60
- Language-model AIOE 58
- GPTs-are-GPTs 13
Observed AI use today: Little or none (Anthropic Economic Index)
AI exposure for this job is moderate, and observed AI use is little or none so far. AI tools may help with parts of hearing tests and with checking the results. Counseling families, teaching clients to use their devices, and hands-on device repair rely on people.
Likely to change
- Giving and scoring basic hearing tests
- Choosing which tests to run
Still relies on people
- Counseling patients and families about hearing loss
- Teaching clients to use hearing aids
Written with AI from the data on this page. Check with a career coach before making a decision.
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