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Elizabethton, Tennessee

Staff Audiologist

AudiologistNo callFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

The Staff Audiologist provides comprehensive evidence-based audiologic evaluation and treatment at the Center for Outpatient Rehabilitation at the Nave Center while serving as a clinical educator and supporting ETSU students.

The position supports timely access to specialized audiology services, contributes to the interdisciplinary and interprofessional clinical environment, and helps meet the growing demand for audiology services in the region.

This position integrates clinical service and student education and supervision with patient centered care.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Knowledge of professional audiology principles, practices, procedures, and standards of care.
  • Knowledge of audiologic evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and patient management.
  • Ability to provide effective clinical services to patients with diverse and complex audiologic needs.
  • Ability to exercise independent professional judgment in the delivery of patient care.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with patients, families, healthcare professionals, faculty, and students.
  • Ability to provide clinical instruction, precepting, and mentoring to students.
  • Ability to work effectively within an interdisciplinary and interprofessional healthcare environment.
  • Ability to organize and prioritize clinical responsibilities in a high-volume outpatient setting.
  • Ability to maintain accurate and appropriate clinical documentation.
  • Ability to establish effective working relationships with patients, students, faculty, staff, and other healthcare professionals.

Required Qualifications

  • Doctor of Audiology (AuD) or master’s degree in Audiology at the time of hire.
  • Certified or eligible for certification by the American

Speech-Language-Hearing Association at the time of hire.

  • Eligible to obtain a license to practice audiology in the State of Tennessee.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with hearing assistive technologies and programming of hearing devices.
  • Experience with comprehensive audiological evaluations.
  • Experience with auditory physiologic measures including ABR, OAEs, Vestibular Assessment.
  • Experience working with an interprofessional team.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Job Family – Medical Clinical Professional 2
  • Market Range - 10 Salary Schedules
  • While our salary ranges provide a compensation framework, initial offers typically do not fall at the top of the range. Salary offers are based on each candidate’s qualifications, experience, and overall alignment with the position, while ensuring internal equity across the organization.
  • For information on benefits, please visit etsu.edu.

Application Instructions and Additional Details

  • Exempt positions are only required to be posted for a minimum of fourteen (14) calendar days. The closing date for this posting is subject to change without notice to applicants.
  • Documents needed to apply: Resume, cover letter, and references available upon request
  • Employment is contingent on a satisfactory background check

ETSU is an equal opportunity employer.

University Overview

East Tennessee State University (ETSU) is an institution with over 14,000 diverse students highly ranked graduate and undergraduate programs. Located in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of Northeast Tennessee, ETSU serves as a hub for community, discovery, and service.

Aligned with the institution's mission, we value efforts to engage in teaching, scholarship, creative activities, and service that involve community partners and address significant societal needs in our region and beyond.

Recognized in 2024 as a Great College to Work For, recent strategic initiatives prioritize the institution’s focus on community engagement.

Disclaimer: The Job Summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of work individuals perform in this classification. It is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required.

Management reserves the right to revise the job or require different tasks to be performed as assigned to reflect changes in the position. Employees must be able to perform the position's essential functions satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodations.

Key Responsibilities

The Staff Audiologist provides comprehensive evidence-based audiologic evaluation and treatment while serving as a clinical educator for students. This role integrates clinical service with patient-centered care and contributes to an interdisciplinary healthcare environment.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Doctor of Audiology (AuD) or a master’s degree in Audiology and be eligible for ASHA certification. Applicants must also be eligible for an audiology license in the State of Tennessee.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Interdisciplinary collaborationInterprofessional communication

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Staff Audiologist at ETSU a 6.1 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Audiology healthcare professional listings evaluated on our platform. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.

Audiology Career Context

Of the 50 active Audiology listings this role was benchmarked against, 8% are remote, 14% have no call, 92% require no weekends.

Audiology pay on WeekdayDoc is down 5.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

Audiology by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Cost of livingTennessee index 91.9US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Audiology listings in Tennessee6 active598 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 8% remote · 14% no call · 92% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedUS healthcare professional listings: 17% state a sign-on bonus (median $10k) · 9% offer loan repayment621 active listings, Nov 2026
New Audiology listings155 in the last 30 days124 the 30 days before (+25%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Audiology pay trend−5.2% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Location & Logistics

Tennessee has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

Top Audiologist Jobs

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Salary Distribution

36 jobs · 16 employers
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<$95k
5
$95k-110k
9
$110k-125k
5
$125k-140k
1
$143k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

32 jobs · 16 employers
401k / retirement match
91%
CME allowance
78%
Loan repayment
56%
Sign-on bonus
28%
Relocation assistance
3%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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$115k-$130k
#3

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.4this job 6.1
Better work-life than 50% of Audiology listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 594 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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Living in Elizabethton

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$273k
Typical market rent
$1,254/mo
Residents’ average commute
21 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
87.9
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Johnson City, TN metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.