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This article examines historical trends in audiology wages using national Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) data, benchmarking absolute wage levels, growth trajectories, and degree-based comparisons against 33 other healthcare occupations. Results indicate that the rate of wage growth slowed following the profession's transition to doctoral-level entry relative to the preceding master's-dominant period. Audiology wages also remained closely coupled to speech-language pathology wages throughout the study period.  When benchmarked against healthcare professions grouped by minimum educational requirement, audiology's mean wage clustered within the master's-degree wage band rather than the doctoral-degree band, a pattern consistent with credential\u2013wage decoupling. These findings suggest that increased educational requirements alone were insufficient to reposition audiology's economic standing, with structural factors\u2013including reimbursement dependency, device-anchored revenue models, employment-based compensation structures, and scope fragmentation\u2013implicated as consistent explanations. Earnings function here as a workforce sustainability signal with implications for recruitment, retention, and professional positioning within U.S. healthcare.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/s-0046-1825788","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,7]],"date-time":"2026-10-07T08:37:22Z","timestamp":1791362242000},"page":"095-101","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Economics of Audiology Wages: Benchmarking a Doctoral Health Profession Within U.S. Healthcare"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"47","author":[{"given":"Victor","family":"Bray","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Osborne Audiology Department, College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Amyn M.","family":"Amlani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Allied Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"194","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref6","volume-title":"Labor Economics, 9th Edition","author":"G J Borjas","year":"2024"},{"issue":"03","key":"ref7","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"259","DOI":"10.1257\/mac.20130057","article-title":"Structural change, growth, and volatility","volume":"7","author":"A Moro","year":"2015","journal-title":"Am Econ J Macroecon"},{"issue":"08","key":"ref10","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"22","DOI":"10.1097\/01.HJ.0000770996.72603.ea","article-title":"Evaluating audiology pricing models","volume":"74","author":"G Glantz","year":"2021","journal-title":"Hear J"},{"issue":"04","key":"ref11","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"369","DOI":"10.1055\/s-0036-1593994","article-title":"The future of private practice in audiology","volume":"37","author":"D A Fabry","year":"2016","journal-title":"Semin Hear"},{"key":"ref13","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"115","DOI":"10.1016\/bs.heslab.2025.07.001","article-title":"Skills and human capital in the labor market","volume":"6","author":"D Deming","year":"2025","journal-title":"Handbook Labor Econ"}],"container-title":["Seminars in Hearing"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/www.thieme-connect.de\/products\/ejournals\/pdf\/10.1055\/s-0046-1825788.pdf","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,7]],"date-time":"2026-10-07T08:37:25Z","timestamp":1791362245000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/www.thieme-connect.de\/DOI\/DOI?10.1055\/s-0046-1825788"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026,5]]},"references-count":5,"journal-issue":{"issue":"02","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,6]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2026,5]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1055\/s-0046-1825788","archive":["Portico","CLOCKSS"],"relation":{},"ISSN":["0734-0451","1098-8955"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0734-0451","type":"print"},{"value":"1098-8955","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026,5]]}}}