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What optometrists make
Median
$136,570
Bottom tenth
$74,870
Top tenth
$202,180
The national median is $136,570 a year, and the bottom tenth earn $74,870 or less. The survey counts optometrists paid a wage, so practice owners, who earn from the frames and lenses as well as the exams, are largely missing from it.