Jobs / Healthcare / 29-2092.00
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.
- US jobs
- 11,270
- Median wage
- $65,160 a year
- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of hearing aid specialists?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Healthcare:
- Task levelPartialOne benchmark, from early 2025. On Stanford's MedAgentBench, where agents do clinical tasks in a simulated electronic health record, the best recorded model completes 69.7% of tasks (Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2). It has no maintained leaderboard, so newer models are not measured. No benchmark in our collection tests work with patients.
- Project levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. GDPval includes nurses among its 44 occupations. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons across all occupations. No benchmark in our collection tests clinical work over days, such as managing a patient's care.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in healthcare, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- 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.
- Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.
- Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in audiology.
- Demonstrate assistive listening devices (ALDs) to clients.
- Assist audiologists in performing aural procedures, such as real ear measurements, speech audiometry, auditory brainstem responses, electronystagmography, and cochlear implant mapping.
- Diagnose and treat hearing or related disabilities under the direction of an audiologist.
Other job titles for this occupation (24)
Audioprosthologist · Hearing Aid Consultant · Hearing Aid Specialist · Hearing Care Practitioner · Hearing Care Specialist · Hearing Instrument Dispenser · Hearing Instrument Specialist (HIS) · Hearing Specialist · Licensed Hearing Instrument Specialist (Licensed HIS) · National Board Certified Hearing Instrument Specialist (National Board Certified HIS) · Audiology Assistant · Audiology Technician · Board Certified Hearing Instrument Specialist (Board Certified HIS) · Hearing Aid Attendant · Hearing Aid Dispenser · Hearing Aid Fitter · Hearing Aid Technician (Hearing Aid Tech) · Hearing Care Professional · Hearing Health Technician (Hearing Health Tech) · Hearing Screen Technician · Hearing Screener · Hearing Screening Technician (Hearing Screening Tech) · Hearing Technician (Hearing Tech) · Newborn Hearing Screener