Optometry jobs in California
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Optometry jobs in California split between two big markets. The Los Angeles area had 2,360 optometrists in May 2025 and the San Francisco area 1,180, with medians of $138,940 and $142,580, so the Bay Area pays slightly more with half the headcount.
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Your California association is California Optometric Association, listed with its counterparts across the country in the association directory.
About Optometry jobs in California
The Riverside, Sacramento, and San Diego areas each held over 500 optometrists as well. The state is short on technicians: its 2,500 ophthalmic medical technicians come to fewer than one for every two optometrists. California opticians answer to a state licensing board, and their median of $57,990 was more than $10,000 over the national $47,260. Today that is 87 live optometry jobs in California. EssilorLuxottica Group, National Vision, and Chan Family Optometry have posted the most of them, and Florin, Los Angeles, and San Diego have more than anywhere else. Posted pay runs from $52k to $84k a year where an employer states it.