Hearing Aid Specialists
Select and fit hearing aids for customers. Administer and interpret tests of hearing. Assess hearing instrument efficacy. Take ear impressions and prepare, design, and modify ear molds.
11,270 people do this job in the US. $65,160 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 2%
- 11%
- 87%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 2%. Today's estimate: 2%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 11 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 26% | 1.3 h38 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 14% | 38 min13 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.Done daily by most who do it. | 13% | 50 min25 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Counsel patients and families on communication strategies and the effects of hearing loss.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 11% | 38 min17 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 11% | 33 min17 min to 1.1 h | Stays with people | |
| Perform basic screening procedures, such as pure tone screening, otoacoustic screening, immittance screening, and screening of ear canal status using otoscope.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 9% | 21 min13 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Diagnose and treat hearing or related disabilities under the direction of an audiologist.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 7% | 1.3 h38 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Assist audiologists in performing aural procedures, such as real ear measurements, speech audiometry, auditory brainstem responses, electronystagmography, and cochlear implant mapping.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 4% | 1.3 h25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in audiology.Done more than weekly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 2% | 50 min25 min to 2.5 h | 95%Half by now | |
| Demonstrate assistive listening devices (ALDs) to clients.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 1% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
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