Jobs / Healthcare / 29-2081.00
Opticians, Dispensing
Design, measure, fit, and adapt lenses and frames for client according to written optical prescription or specification. Assist client with inserting, removing, and caring for contact lenses. Assist client with selecting frames. Measure customer for size of eyeglasses and coordinate frames with facial and eye measurements and optical prescription. Prepare work order for optical laboratory containing instructions for grinding and mounting lenses in frames. Verify exactness of finished lens spectacles. Adjust frame and lens position to fit client. May shape or reshape frames. Includes contact lens opticians.
- US jobs
- 73,530
- Median wage
- $47,260 a year
- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of opticians, dispensing?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Healthcare: Some tasks (no change in 12 months)
Agents complete 20% or more of the tasks (or projects) on a direct benchmark.
Evidence: MedAgentBench, 69.7% of tasks completed.
0% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark.
- 17%Fabricate medical devicesNot measured
- 9%Train others to use equipment or productsNot measured
- 9%Sell products or servicesNot measured
- 8%Advise others on products or servicesNot measured
- 8%Fit assistive devices to patients or clientsNot measured
- 6%Examine people or animals to assess health conditions or physical characteristicsNot measured
- 5%Plan work activitiesNot measured
- 5%Operate medical equipmentNot measured
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in healthcare, not always this occupation's tasks.
Direct evidence
Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.
Also relevant
These benchmarks cover part of this family's work, or have no result yet. They do not set its step.
Context only
These benchmarks span many occupations, or they test how agents behave. They give context but do not set the step.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
- Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
- Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
- Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
- Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
- Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
- Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
- Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients' eyeglasses.
- Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
- Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
- Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and goods related to eyes, in general.
Other job titles for this occupation (18)
Certified Optician · Contact Lens Technician · Dispensing Optician · Licensed Dispensing Optician (LDO) · Licensed Optician · Ophthalmic Dispenser · Optical Technician · Optician · Optometric Technician · Registered Optician · Contact Lens Fitter · Dispensing and Measuring Optician · Eyecare Advisor · Eyeglass Fitter · Eyewear Specialist · Licensed Optical Dispenser · Optical Dispenser · Optical Sales Associate