7 of the Most Popular Types of Eye Assistant Jobs in 2026

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Top Types Of Eye Assistant Jobs

• Optometrist Assistant

  Salary range: $33,500 - $37,500

  An optometrist is a medical professional who provides vision and eye care. An optometrist assistant, also called an “optometric assistant,” works with the optometrist to ensure the office runs smoothly. As an optometrist assistant, your job duties include scheduling appointments, filing paperwork, handling other bookkeeping tasks, and answering the phone. You may also have some clinical responsibilities, such as performing pretests for vision exams, prepping exam rooms, cleaning and setting up equipment, and showing patients how to care for contact lenses.

• Certified Ophthalmic Technician

  Salary range: $44,000 - $79,500

  A certified ophthalmic technician (COT) assists an ophthalmologist with various eye care tasks in a clinical setting. As a certified ophthalmic technician, your responsibilities include taking the patient’s medical history and other information, performing preliminary eye tests and measurements, and providing the ophthalmologist with any additional support they might need. You also update records, set up necessary equipment for the exam, and answer any questions the patient may have about their results.

• Optical Assistant

  Salary range: $32,000 - $38,000

  An optical assistant is a vision care customer’s first point of contact, as you work in the retail or sales departments or optometrist’s offices. In this career, you are responsible for greeting patients and helping them select the right eyewear as well as repairing and making adjustments to the eyewear. Assistants perform duties such as fitting eyeglasses or contacts under supervision, measuring an eye or bridge of the nose, scheduling appointments, gathering important patient information, and maintaining medical files. Customer service is an important part of the job.

• Certified Ophthalmic Assistant

  Salary range: $45,500 - $64,500

  A certified ophthalmic assistant works alongside eye physicians, or ophthalmologists, offering medical and administrative support. Essential duties include administering eye exams, recording patient information, providing customer service, rooming patients, and cleaning exam rooms and equipment. Your responsibilities may also require that you give medications to patients, assist in surgical preparations, perform diagnostic tests, order medical supplies, and schedule patient appointments. Your professional certification develops your skills and allows you to work in hospitals, clinics, or private offices alongside professional eye doctors.

• Lions Sightfirst Eye Hospital

  Salary range: $34,000 - $40,000

  Lions Sightfirst Eye Hospital is a more unusual job search query but still may give you interesting job results. Most salaries for Lions Sightfirst Eye Hospital jobs pay between $34,000 (25th percentile) and $40,000 (75th percentile) annually. Currently, there are not many open positions nationwide for Lions Sightfirst Eye Hospital job searches hiring now on ZipRecruiter. You can take a look at what is available and find similar job searches in this list.

• No Experience Ophthalmic Technician

  Salary range: $37,500 - $50,500

  No Experience Ophthalmic Technician is a more unusual job search query but still may give you interesting job results. Most salaries for No Experience Ophthalmic Technician jobs pay between $37,500 (25th percentile) and $50,500 (75th percentile) annually. Take a look at the variety of open positions nationwide for No Experience Ophthalmic Technician job searches hiring now on ZipRecruiter.

• Eye Clinic

  Salary range: $32,000 - $38,500

  Eye Clinic is a common job search query. Most salaries for Eye Clinic jobs pay between $32,000 (25th percentile) and $38,500 (75th percentile) annually. Take a look at the variety of open positions nationwide for Eye Clinic job searches hiring now on ZipRecruiter.