How to Research Salary Ranges & Benefits for an Optician

Video Transcript

"So you might be wondering, how much does an Optician really make and what kind of benefits can you receive? Hi, my name is Jena Hartman, owner of Promozone Life, an employment agency here in Florida. We're going to show you how to research salaries and benefits for an Optician. First and foremost, if you know somebody in the field, you want to ask them maybe what's the starting salaries, what can make you beginning as well as benefits that they receive. A lot of times, they'll give you dental benefits just to give you, just of what they are receiving at that time. Now another great resource will be going down to a local eye doctor and asking that, their Optician, what the starting salaries are and benefits at their location. Now keep in mind depending on your experience, it'll make a difference in your starting salary as well as where you're geographically located. Now one of the great resource I would suggest going to, we have online websites. Now you obviously are familiar with using the internet so you want to go a search engine and type in National Association of Opticians and on there, their website is oaa.org or like I said you can use a search engine with the key words. One another website would be a government website, it is the Bureau of Labor Statistics and you could find out, benefits and salaries and get all the research, do all the research that you need. There website is bls.gov. Good luck with finding your information and that's how to research salaries and benefits for an Optician. My name is Jena Hartman, owner of Promozone Life."