- Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
- Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
- Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using
Dispensing optician | Average UK Salary & Outlook
Dispensing opticians give advice on vision care, and supply glasses and contact lenses to suit their customers needs.
Dispensing opticians typically work around 42 to 44 hours per week.
As a Dispensing optician you will typically work weekends.
This occupation tends to be:
- Enterprising— Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
- Conventional— Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and
| Average salary |
| 23,805 GBP * |
| per year |
Salary statistics
Average salary for Dispensing optician
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23,807 GBP
Average salary for part-time Dispensing optician
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Salary over time for Dispensing optician
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Future outlook for Dispensing opticians
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0% yearly wage growth (on average)
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45% chance of automation in the future Dispensing optician - Your future job?
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Find out what you need to know in order to become a Dispensing optician and the highest average level of education for people in this role.
Things to highlight for your Dispensing optician interview
Analytical Thinking Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. Attention to Detail Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. Innovation Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. Dependability Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. Cooperation Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
