Career Explorer Healthcare (clinical)
Grows with AI
Audiologists
Assess and treat persons with hearing and related disorders. May fit hearing aids and provide auditory training. May perform research related to hearing problems.
More resilient than most: more resilient than 71% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is moderate (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it high), and US jobs are projected to change by +11.0% by 2035, much faster than average. The work leans on emotional intelligence and ethical judgement.
AI can help with many of the tasks, and demand is still growing. Being fluent with AI is the edge here.
- Median pay (2025)
- $95,780
- Job growth to 2035
- +11.0%
- Openings a year
- 600
- People doing it (2025)
- 14,200
- Usual route in
- Doctorate or professional degree
Where people already use AI for this work
- Advise others on products or services
- Analyze health or medical data
- Advise others on healthcare or wellness issues
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Train others on health or medical topics
- Examine people or animals to assess health conditions or physical characteristics
- Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient care
What the work looks like
- Maintain patient records at all stages, including initial and subsequent evaluation and treatment activities.
- Evaluate hearing and balance disorders to determine diagnoses and courses of treatment.
- Fit, dispense, and repair assistive devices, such as hearing aids.
- Administer hearing tests and examine patients to collect information on type and degree of impairment, using specialized instruments and electronic equipment.
- Monitor patients' progress and provide ongoing observation of hearing or balance status.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
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Also known as: Audiologist, Audiology Doctor (AUD), Clinical Audiologist, Educational Audiologist, Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology Licensed Audiologist (CCC-A Licensed Audiologist), Dispensing Audiologist, Forensic Audiologist, Industrial Audiologist.
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.