Optometrist
Compensation
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Job Description
Posterity Group LLC is a veteran owned, service-disabled small business, headquartered in Rockville, MD, that specializes in federal government contracting and staffing. We are working with VES (Veteran Evaluation Services) to staff Optometrists to provide their services to veterans in our Rockville, MD headquarters. The Optometrist is expected to perform the following:
Performs eye examinations for visual defects and does refractions by means of such instruments as the Ophthalmometer, Skiascope, Ophthalmoscope and Retinoscope.
Prescribes lenses, prisms or visual exercises to improve vision without use of medicine, drugs or surgery.
Refers patients having ocular manifestations of disease to an Ophthalmologist.
Requirements
- Graduation from an accredited school of Optometry.
- A license to practice Optometry in the State of Maryland.
- At least 3 years of relevant experience
Key Responsibilities
The Optometrist will perform comprehensive eye examinations and refractions using specialized instruments to assess visual defects. They are responsible for prescribing corrective lenses or visual exercises and referring patients with ocular diseases to an Ophthalmologist.
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Optometrist at Posterity Group a 6.6 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Optometry — ranked against 1,954 active Optometry listings on WeekdayDoc.
Optometry Career Context
Of the 44 active Optometry listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 77% have no call, 45% require no weekends.
Optometry pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Maryland is 105.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 62.9% of Maryland clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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- On-site
Living in Rockville
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $624k
- Typical market rent
- $2,405/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 31 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 108.9
- State income tax
- Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.