How to hire an audiologist

How to hire an audiologist, step by step

Here's a step-by-step audiologist hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write an audiologist job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new audiologist
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   Before you post your audiologist job, you should take the time to determine what type of worker your business needs. While certain jobs definitely require a full-time employee, it's sometimes better to find an audiologist for hire on a part-time basis or as a contractor.

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   An audiologist's background is also an important factor in determining whether they'll be a good fit for the position. For example, audiologists from different industries or fields will have radically different experiences and will bring different viewpoints to the role. You also need to consider the candidate's previous level of experience to make sure they'll be comfortable with the job's level of seniority.

   The following list breaks down different types of audiologists and their corresponding salaries.

   Type of Audiologist	Description	Hourly rate
   Audiologist	Audiologists diagnose, manage, and treat a patient’s hearing, balance, or ear problems.	$12-58
   Clinical Audiologist	A Clinical Audiologist provides diagnostic and therapeutic services to patients who have hearing, balance, or related ear problems. They document the initial evaluation, treatment, and progress of patients.	$12-76

2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Patients
   • Rehabilitation
   • Patient Care
   • Hearing Loss
   • Test Results
   • Listening Devices
   • Veterans
   • Customer Service
   • Hearing Conservation
   • Hearing Tests
   • Nose
   • Audiology Services
   • Balance Disorders
   • Otoacoustic Emissions

   Check all skills

   Responsibilities:

   • Select and fit hearing instruments, and provide counseling and aural rehabilitation for hearing impair veterans and their families.
   • Conduct basic diagnostic testing procedures including pure tone audiometry, play audiometry, VRA, immittance, and DP OAE testing.
   • Administer aural rehabilitation to geriatric-psychiatric patients.
   • Involve in several FDA clinical trials of new cochlear implant devices.
   • Administer and interpret electrophysiologic testing including ABR & ECOG, and balance testing using VNG and VHIT.
   • Perform sedated threshold ABR testing in the audiology clinic, NICU, PACU, and operating room.

   More audiologist duties

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your audiologist job description helps attract top candidates to the position. An audiologist salary can be affected by several factors, such as geography, experience, seniority, certifications, and the prestige of the hiring company.

   For example, the average salary for an audiologist in Wisconsin may be lower than in Alaska, and an entry-level audiologist usually earns less than a senior-level audiologist. Additionally, an audiologist with certifications may command a higher salary, and working for a well-known company or start-up may also impact an employee's pay.

   Average audiologist salary

   $55,657yearly

   $26.76 hourly rate

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   Entry-level audiologist salary

   $25,000 yearly salary

   Updated December 16, 2025

   Average audiologist salary by state

   Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
   1	California	$78,949	$38
   2	Ohio	$66,594	$32
   3	Connecticut	$66,023	$32
   4	Massachusetts	$63,925	$31
   5	Minnesota	$60,480	$29
   6	New York	$59,839	$29
   7	New Jersey	$57,387	$28
   8	Texas	$57,370	$28
   9	Michigan	$56,681	$27
   10	Arizona	$54,133	$26
   11	North Carolina	$52,290	$25
   12	Illinois	$52,119	$25
   13	Georgia	$51,404	$25
   14	New Mexico	$49,056	$24
   15	Washington	$48,270	$23
   16	Missouri	$47,723	$23
   17	Florida	$47,264	$23
   18	Oregon	$47,264	$23
   19	Colorado	$46,050	$22
   20	Idaho	$43,996	$21

   Average audiologist salary by company

   Company

   Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
   1	Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc.	$219,441	$105.50
   2	Scripps Health	$215,527	$103.62	1
   3	Erlanger Health System	$215,032	$103.38
   4	OSF HealthCare	$211,826	$101.84	1
   5	Essentia Health	$209,505	$100.72	16
   6	UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital	$201,443	$96.85
   7	Sanford Health	$183,441	$88.19	2
   8	St. Joseph's Health	$180,126	$86.60
   9	Atrium Health Floyd	$166,045	$79.83	1
   10	Doctors Medical Ctr	$164,614	$79.14
   11	Children's Hospital of Michigan	$163,736	$78.72
   12	SSM Health	$162,822	$78.28	7
   13	SEARHC	$162,038	$77.90
   14	University Health	$158,664	$76.28
   15	Novant Health	$157,081	$75.52
   16	University Hospitals	$155,213	$74.62	1
   17	Kaiser Permanente	$153,359	$73.73	39
   18	CHRISTUS Health	$151,500	$72.84
   19	Beaumont Health	$146,784	$70.57
   20	St. Joseph Healthcare	$145,383	$69.90

4. Writing an audiologist job description

   An audiologist job description should include a summary of the role, required skills, and a list of responsibilities. It's also good to include a salary range and the first name of the hiring manager. Below, you can find an example of an audiologist job description:

   Audiologist job description example

   • Must meet entry level educational requirement from an Audiology Master s level accredited program.

   First established in 1901, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center is a 665-bed quaternary care, teaching hospital that provides comprehensive health care for the region. Staffed with more than 800 physicians, 3200 employees, and 150 volunteers, our hospital is ready to provide you and your family with the quality care you need.

   At Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, we are committed to quality and excellence in patient care. Our goal is to exceed your expectations and to provide you with an environment that is conducive to healing and promotes patient safety. The Newark Beth Israel Medical Center management and staff abide by the philosophy that all patients are to be treated with respect, dignity, and sensitivity.

   The Children s Hospital of New Jersey provides comprehensive inpatient and outpatient pediatric services that include a pediatric intensive care unit, pediatric emergency department, Valerie Fund Children s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, and a neonatal ICU with New Jersey s only ECMO unit. The pediatric staff pharmacist works in the decentralized pharmacy satellite and provides collaborative pharmaceutical care to the Children s Hospital of New Jersey including NICU and PICU, and the emergency department.

   We offer a great work environment, competitive rates and excellent benefits, including:

   • Medical/Dental/Vision plans
   • 401 (k)
   • Vacation/Personal/Holiday/Sick Time Off
   • Short & Long Term Disability
   • Basic Life & Accidental Death Insurance
   • Tuition Reimbursement
   • Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

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5. Post your job

   To find the right audiologist for your business, consider trying out a few different recruiting strategies:

   • Consider internal talent. One of the most important sources of talent for any company is its existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals. Reach out to friends, family members, and current employees and ask if they know or have worked with audiologists they would recommend.
   • Recruit at local colleges. Attend job fairs at local colleges to recruit audiologists who meet your education requirements.
   • Social media platforms. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter now have more than 3.5 billion users, and you can use social media to reach potential job candidates.

   To find audiologist candidates, you can consider the following options:

   • Post your job opening on Zippia or other job search websites.
   • Use niche websites that focus on engineering and technology jobs, such as healthcarejobsite, health jobs nationwide, hospitalcareers, medreps.com.
   • Post your job on free job posting websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Recruiting audiologists requires you to bring your A-game to the interview process. The first interview should introduce the company and the role to the candidate as much as they present their background experience and reasons for applying for the job. During later interviews, you can go into more detail about the technical details of the job and ask behavioral questions to gauge how they'd fit into your current company culture.

   You should also ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match the ideal candidate profile you developed earlier. Candidates good enough for the next step can complete the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new audiologist

   Once you've decided on a perfect audiologist candidate, it's time to write an offer letter. In addition to salary, it should include benefits and perks available to the employee. Qualified candidates may be considered for other positions, so make sure your offer is competitive. Candidates may wish to negotiate. Once you've settled on the details, formalize your agreement with a contract.

   It's also important to follow up with applicants who do not get the job with an email letting them know that the position is filled.

   To prepare for the new employee's start date, you can create an onboarding schedule and complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9 forms, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Human Resources should also ensure that a new employee file is created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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