Optometry Office Manager job description
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In offices of optometrists, medical and health services managers earned a median of $72,620 in May 2025, a little under 60 percent of the occupation's national median of $123,860. BLS has no separate line for optometry office managers, so the practice figure comes from the industry row, which counted 2,040 of them. Its tenth-percentile wage was $51,020 and its ninetieth-percentile wage $116,520. The national line also covers managers in hospitals, clinics, managed care organizations, and public health agencies, which helps explain the distance between the two figures.
Core Duties and Responsibilities
O*NET rates staff supervision highest: directing and evaluating the work of clinical, clerical, and support employees. Next comes building and maintaining the record systems that hold personnel data and produce reports, then planning and running the services a practice offers. Managers handle the money as well, including budgets, spending approvals, fee setting, and financial reporting. They set work schedules against patient load and equipment, recruit, hire, and train staff, and keep up with changes in insurance, regulation, and diagnostic equipment. Writing office policies and reporting to the owners on how the practice is doing complete the core list.
Common Skills and Technologies
Speaking, critical thinking, and complex problem solving rank near the top of the skills list, along with monitoring. Employers ask most for Microsoft Excel, Office, and Outlook. Postings for the broader occupation also name Intuit QuickBooks, eClinicalWorks, and Epic Systems, and the technology categories run from accounting to human resources software.
Education, Training, and Career Path
O*NET puts the occupation in Job Zone Four. A bachelor's degree drew about 46 percent of respondents' answers on required education and a master's about 21 percent, though those answers cover the whole occupation, hospitals included.
Sources: O*NET 30.0, 11-9111.00 Medical and Health Services Managers, https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/11-9111.00. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, 11-9111, https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm.