average pay for eye care
Optometry Salary by the Numbers. According to the BLS, the average annual pay for salaried optometrists for May of 2009 was $106,960, which is an increase of almost $1,000 from the average annual pay for salaried optometrists for May of 2008, which was $105,200.ptometrist earnings will vary due to basic factors like cost of living in the area, type of work environment, experience, and plenty of other variables as well.
According to a study conducted by a leading industry analyst in 2011 (commissioned by AllAboutVision.com), if you have no health insurance and must pay for the procedure entirely on your own, you can expect to pay about $2,700 per eye (on average) for standard cataract surgery, down from $3,300 per eye in 2010.