Audiologist Salary: What the BLS Survey Shows by State and Setting

Audiologist salary by state

BLS publishes a mean and a median audiologist wage for each state where its May 2025 survey had enough responses. The highest state means were Oregon ($128,950), North Dakota ($124,010), Nevada ($118,870), District of Columbia ($117,460) and New Jersey ($113,560). The lowest were Louisiana ($80,670), Oklahoma ($79,200) and Mississippi ($78,510).

Medians rank the states differently. Nevada's median, $133,110, is the highest, ahead of New Jersey ($119,230) and North Dakota ($118,750). The median is the middle wage, so a few high earners pull it less than they pull the mean.

California and Texas both come up in searches related to this question. California's mean was $112,680 and its median $114,910, across 1,740 jobs, the most of any state. Texas had a mean of $98,780 and a median of $93,570, across 1,020 jobs.

Each state estimate carries a relative standard error (RSE). Georgia's mean has an RSE of 14 percent, against 2.0 percent for the national mean, so treat a state figure with a high RSE as a rough one. BLS released no audiologist wage estimate for Rhode Island and Wyoming; a missing state has no released estimate, which is not the same as having no audiologists.

Audiologist salary per hour

The national mean hourly wage for audiologists was $46.99 in May 2025, and the median $46.05. BLS turns hourly into annual pay by multiplying by 2,080 hours, the hours of a full-time year.

The lowest-paid 10 percent of audiologists earned less than $31.06 an hour ($64,610 a year), and the highest-paid 10 percent more than $64.00 an hour ($133,120 a year). The middle half earned between $79,340 and $111,300 a year.

These figures leave out self-employed audiologists, whom the survey doesn't count.

Audiologist pay by work setting

Where an audiologist works changes the pay. Among the settings BLS reports, outpatient care centers had a mean of $125,150 and the highest median, $132,390, but only 720 jobs. General medical and surgical hospitals paid a mean of $105,210 across 2,060 jobs, and elementary and secondary schools $101,240 across 860.

The two settings with the most audiologists paid less: offices of physicians had a mean of $93,860 and offices of other health practitioners $89,980, the lowest of the settings listed, with 3,660 jobs each. Health and personal care retailers paid a mean of $94,000 across 1,370 jobs.

Other ambulatory health care services shows the highest mean, $136,420, but on about 100 jobs and with an RSE of 10.8 percent, so it says little about a single offer.

Where audiologists work

BLS counted 13,660 audiologist jobs in May 2025. Its estimates don't include self-employed workers, so audiologists who own their practice are outside this count.

By setting, offices of physicians (3,660), offices of other health practitioners (3,660), general medical and surgical hospitals (2,060), health and personal care retailers (1,370) and elementary and secondary schools (860) employed the most. By state, the largest counts were in California (1,740), Ohio (1,230), Texas (1,020), Florida (700) and New York (690).

Ohio stands out: it has the second-largest number of jobs, but its mean, $82,540, is among the lowest of any state. The states with the most audiologists are not the ones that pay the most, which matters if you're weighing a move. BLS released no employment count for Alaska, Mississippi, Nevada and Vermont, even though it published their wages.

Job outlook for audiologists

The Occupational Outlook Handbook from BLS projects employment of audiologists to grow 11 percent from 2025 to 2035, which it calls much faster than the average for all occupations. It expects about 600 openings for audiologists each year, on average, over the decade.

That projection is a separate BLS product from the May 2025 wage survey above: one counts jobs that exist now and what they pay, the other estimates how the number of jobs may change.