Audiologists
What the pay figures show
- Nevada comes first for audiologists on every measure. $133,110 on paper. Still first after tax. Still first at $105,431 once you adjust for what things cost. When the headline and the reality agree, say so plainly.
- For audiologists, Nevada's $133,110 median is the highest nominally, after tax, and after regional price adjustment, at $105,431. Concordance across all three measures is uncommon and worth stating explicitly, because the absence of a reordering is itself the finding for this occupation.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$95,780
People doing it
13,660
Highest paid
$133,110
NV
Best off, really
$105,431
NV, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$64,610
Highest tenth
$133,120
Lowest, really
$60,822
VA
States with data
49
National average
$97,740
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
96.98%
NV, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Nationally, this job pays within a fairly narrow band. Adjust for tax and for local prices and the band tightens again, to between $60,822 and $105,431. Geography is not the main lever on pay here.
- Just 13,660 Americans work in this job. Small fields move around more from year to year.
- This job is not published everywhere — 49 jurisdictions have a figure, with $95,780 in the middle. Where one is missing, it was never released. Nevada tops the ones that are.
- Wages for audiologists cluster comparatively tightly across states, and the clustering strengthens after tax and price deflation — a real range of $60,822 to $105,431. Occupation-level factors such as specialisation and employer type therefore explain more of an individual's pay here than location does.
- 13,660 are employed nationally in audiologists — a small occupation, where the state spread above is more sensitive to sample composition than it would be in a large one.
- 49 jurisdictions carry a published median for audiologists. ⚠️ Suppression is not random: it correlates with small state-level samples, so the reported set skews toward larger employers of this occupation.
Pay band: Audiologists
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $64,610 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $95,780 |
| Top tenth earn over | $133,120 |
| This salary | $95,780 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Audiologists
The national median for this job
$95,780around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $64,610 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $95,780 |
| Top tenth | $133,120 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Audiologists, state by state
The national median for this job
49states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Louisiana · $75,200 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Nevada · $133,110 |
| Spread | $57,910 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $93,570 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $96,290 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| NV | $133,110 | $102,247 | $105,431 |
| ND | $118,750 | $91,314 | $103,096 |
| AK | $114,170 | $89,149 | $87,645 |
| AR | $96,980 | $73,926 | $85,455 |
| IA | $97,180 | $74,115 | $83,494 |
| SD | $91,190 | $72,982 | $82,845 |
| WI | $102,840 | $76,528 | $82,202 |
| MO | $99,450 | $75,056 | $81,794 |
| UT | $104,450 | $77,663 | $81,748 |
| NE | $97,460 | $73,662 | $81,506 |
| NJ | $119,230 | $87,303 | $80,181 |
| KS | $97,250 | $72,107 | $80,150 |
| CT | $113,180 | $82,911 | $79,962 |
| NH | $105,590 | $83,113 | $78,896 |
| WA | $108,580 | $85,216 | $78,495 |
| VT | $101,730 | $75,793 | $78,433 |
| TN | $90,540 | $72,525 | $78,393 |
| MI | $97,790 | $73,720 | $78,272 |
| ID | $95,120 | $71,559 | $78,271 |
| KY | $92,520 | $70,797 | $78,257 |
| ME | $102,060 | $74,974 | $77,216 |
| TX | $93,570 | $74,656 | $76,827 |
| MN | $102,130 | $75,257 | $76,467 |
| GA | $98,470 | $73,789 | $76,308 |
| CO | $102,270 | $76,985 | $75,936 |
| IN | $90,280 | $69,708 | $75,619 |
| HI | $113,850 | $81,714 | $75,237 |
| CA | $114,910 | $83,075 | $73,791 |
| MT | $86,990 | $66,473 | $73,660 |
| OR | $109,560 | $76,869 | $73,404 |
| AL | $86,300 | $65,900 | $73,246 |
| NC | $88,920 | $68,346 | $72,601 |
| FL | $93,480 | $74,593 | $72,104 |
| MS | $80,740 | $62,493 | $71,591 |
| NM | $83,050 | $64,517 | $71,380 |
| MA | $104,130 | $77,199 | $71,323 |
| IL | $93,510 | $70,130 | $70,943 |
| PA | $89,480 | $69,032 | $70,802 |
| OH | $81,390 | $64,566 | $70,324 |
| NY | $100,860 | $74,875 | $69,569 |
| WV | $79,990 | $62,329 | $69,430 |
| SC | $82,330 | $63,606 | $68,264 |
| OK | $76,880 | $59,956 | $67,911 |
| DC | $102,500 | $75,195 | $67,863 |
| LA | $75,200 | $59,863 | $67,761 |
| MD | $91,260 | $69,060 | $66,426 |
| DE | $85,700 | $64,695 | $65,182 |
| AZ | $83,210 | $65,690 | $64,973 |
| VA | $80,010 | $61,277 | $60,822 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for audiologists as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $95,780, which means half of everyone doing this work earns less than that. Where you land depends on how long you have done it, who you do it for, and which city you do it in.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for audiologists, no children, no pension contributions, standard deduction. Real life usually reduces the tax bill below this. City and school-district income taxes are left out, and in Ohio or Pennsylvania that is a real omission. The best after-tax state here is Nevada, at $102,247.
- The price adjustment for audiologists uses a statewide figure, and states are not uniform. A city and a rural county in the same state can differ more from each other than two states do, so treat the real-terms comparison as a direction rather than a precise answer — Virginia anchors the bottom at $60,822. The wage data and the price data also come from different years, because that is how each is published.
- These are distribution medians for audiologists, with a national value of $95,780. They describe a midpoint rather than an expected offer, and the within-occupation spread — visible in the tenth and ninetieth percentile figures — is wide enough that a state-level median is a weak predictor for any individual worker.
- Retained-pay figures for audiologists model a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax deferrals — deliberately the simplest household, so the comparison across states isolates geography rather than personal circumstances. Local income taxes are outside the model; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland residents should expect a meaningfully lower figure than $102,247, which leads in Nevada.
- Real-terms figures for audiologists deflate take-home by a statewide regional price parity, which conceals substantial intra-state variation — metropolitan and non-metropolitan price levels within one state frequently differ by more than two states differ from each other. The wage and price series also carry different reference periods, as each is published on its own schedule, so the adjustment is directionally sound rather than precisely dated.