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Also called contact lens technician, edger technician, finishing lab technician and hospital lab technician.
$39,460
Median pay a year
18,660
People do this work
6
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Shaping glass or materials
Repairing assistive devices
Reading work orders or instructions
Inspecting finished products
Weighing finished products
Measuring product dimensions
Selecting production equipment
Cleaning workpieces or products
Soldering parts or workpieces
Removing workpieces from molds
Aligning workpieces
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Ophthalmic Laboratory Technician
Summary
Ophthalmic laboratory technician cutting, grinding, and polishing lenses and optical elements, assembling and mounting them into frames while inspecting for quality and ensuring specifications are met
Experience
Ophthalmic Laboratory Technician
Where you worked
Month Year to Month Year
Mounted and secured lens blanks in machines for cutting, polishing, and grinding
Inspected lens blanks for flaws and checked smoothness and thickness of coatings
Set up machines to polish, bevel, edge, or grind lenses and optical elements
Inspected and measured lenses after completion to verify alignment and specifications
Cleaned finished lenses and eyeglasses using cloths and solvents
Mounted and aligned finished lenses in frames using hand tools
Examined prescriptions and work orders to determine specifications for lenses
Skills
Hands-On Work
Shaping glass or materials, Cleaning workpieces or products, Soldering parts or workpieces, Removing workpieces from molds
Core Skills
Reading work orders or instructions, Repairing assistive devices
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Mounted and secured lens blanksInspected lenses for flawsSet up machines for polishingMeasured lenses for alignmentCleaned finished lenses and glassesAssembled eyeglass frames and parts
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Mounted and secured lens blanks in holding tools to prepare for processing
Set up machines for polishing and grinding lenses to ensure high-quality finishes
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Add how many lens blanks you mounted each shift
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Mounted and secured several lens blanks each day in holding tools to prepare for processing
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Several each dayA few every shiftMost of the day's orders
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Show what improved once the machines were set up
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Set up machines for polishing and grinding lenses to ensure high-quality finishes
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Reduced processing time for lensesImproved lens clarity and qualityMinimized defects in finished products
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The work itself
What an Ophthalmic Laboratory Technician does
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Cut, grind, and polish eyeglasses, contact lenses, or other precision optical elements. Assemble and mount lenses into frames or process other optical elements. Includes precision lens polishers or grinders, centerer-edgers, and lens mounters.
What it pays
How much does an Ophthalmic Laboratory Technician make?
Annual pay across the United States. The middle figure is the median: half earn less than that, and half earn more.
25th percentile
$36,470
Median
$39,460
75th percentile
$47,010
About 18,660 people do this work in the United States.
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Ophthalmic Laboratory Technician
Already yours: Repairing assistive devices, Reading work orders or instructions, Measuring product dimensions
4 of the 12 tasks this job is made of
Median pay
$39,460 a year
What you have not done yet. Weighing finished products, Selecting production equipment, Soldering parts or workpieces
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Already yours: Measuring product dimensions, Cleaning workpieces or products
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This page is about the occupation Ophthalmic Laboratory Technicians. What this job involves and what it is made of come from O*NET 30.3, the US Department of Labor's occupation database, refreshed July 2026; Rung writes those records into the plain sentences you see. Pay comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS release for 2025. How Rung handles accuracy is on the accuracy page, and the full data credits are on the credits page.