anyone know how much does costco optician makes? i think it's a pretty good place to work considering there are less troubleshooting to deal with.
anyone know how much does costco optician makes? i think it's a pretty good place to work considering there are less troubleshooting to deal with.
I say none of us make enough for what we have to deal with.
But, I think they pay rather well. I have heard that from a few Opticians. There was a real good thread about that a while back. I will try to dig it up for you.
It may have been this one:
http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...ghlight=costco
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You can try to contact a fellow Optiboarder=Nettie. She has worked for them, has managed for them, and has a very good take on them. Maybe PM her for specifics!
In California you have to be ABO and NCLE to work there so I imagine that makes the pay a bit better.
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Costco pay very good salary to all emplyees. I don't know about opticians but know of a 23 year old women who makes $ 40,000 a year turning hot dogs at the food counter.
Around here, the managing optician makes about $90,000 and the staff opticians make about $65,000.
wow...$90.000 that's far better than optometrists with 8 years of schooling.
Don't get too excited, I think the Cannadians have some sort of laws about the opticians have to know what they are doing.:D
You don't have to know what you're doing. You just have to take a 6 month course in BC. (just kidding tmorse.)
You just have to pay your $800 a year to the College of Regulated Opticians Of Kanada. Otherwise known as the CROOK office.
My goodness - $65k/year???? I think that maybe less than 1% of managing opticians in AZ make that.
Hi y'all!
I am still w/Costco, just not in Optical for the moment. In most states you start at $11.00 per hour unless you have an ABO or NCLE certification. If you have one you start at $11.50 and then get premuim pay.....$1 to $11 per hour more depending on your state.....once you get the 2nd license....and both have to be obtained within 3 years of being hired or you can no longer work in the Optical dept. Certain states like Nevada have a huge premium pay of up to $11 an hour MORE than what other states make because of their strict licensing requirements. Managers start at about $55,000.
Less troubleshooting???? I don't know what you mean by that.
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I'm making less than 90K! Quite a bit less. And there's nothing wrong. The lowest paid ODs out there are the ones that are in employ by other private practice ODs, and that's how I work. However, I have lots of freedom to set my own schedule, no business management issues, etc. I'll sacrifice the pay to save the headaches!
[quote=LandLord;223902]You don't have to know what you're doing. You just have to take a 6 month course in BC. (just kidding tmorse.) quote]
Actually we prefer that our students have no optical experience, as it is often difficult to break bad habits. And correction... , you have to PASS our 6-month course in BC.:bbg:
[quote=peregrinerose;223998]I'm making less than 90K! Quite a bit less. And there's nothing wrong. The lowest paid ODs out there are the ones that are in employ by other private practice ODs, and that's how I work. However, I have lots of freedom to set my own schedule, no business management issues, etc. I'll sacrifice the pay to save the headaches![/quot
I hope you are only working 2 days a week to be making so little.
[quote=kws6000;224079]
Nope, I am working 4.5 days a week. What I make is about on par for private practice ODs employed by ODs in the area that I live. If I worked in corporate optometry, I could make double my income, but prefer the freedom of private practice. The cost of living here is also pretty low.
[quote=peregrinerose;224082]If you're happy, that's the main thing. I know of a dentist in my area that was making over $500K and he was so miserable he gassed himself to death.
Look, a number is just a number. If you're a female OD with an ophthalmologist husband and no kids, then, 50 grand is going to be plenty.
But if you're the main breadwinner and have 6 kids, it's going to be a very tight budget.
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