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Columbia, Maryland

Part-Time Optometrist (Eye Associates) - Columbia, MD

OptometristPart-Time

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Job Description

Eye Associates in Columbia, Maryland and the surrounding areas, is seeking a part-time Associate Optometrist to join its patient-focused practice. This opportunity is ideal for a dedicated eye care professional who wants to make a meaningful difference in the community while delivering high-quality, personalized care in a supportive and progressive clinical environment.

Why Join Us?

Eye Associates has served the community since the early 1990s. Since Dr. Rana assumed ownership in 2017, the practice has expanded its full-scope care to include primary vision services, comprehensive medical eye care, specialty contact lenses, myopia management, and dry eye treatment.

Committed to providing excellent patient care, Eye Associates continues to advance its services, including plans to offer more extensive dry eye treatment using IPL and radiofrequency technology.

What You’ll Do

As a part-time Associate Optometrist, you’ll work 8–20 hours per week and care for 14–20 patients per shift.

You’ll provide comprehensive eye care using advanced diagnostic technology, including OCT, retinal photography, visual field testing, corneal topography, pachymetry, a digital refractive lane, optical biometry, and an autorefractor, enabling you to deliver accurate diagnoses and personalized treatment plans. This is a part-time position, with the ability to become a full-time opportunity!

Who You Are

You’re a compassionate, skilled Optometrist who delivers personalized care to patients of all ages and visual needs. You value continuous learning, communicate clearly, and work collaboratively with clinical and administrative teams to support excellent outcomes and a positive practice culture. You adapt confidently to evolving clinical needs and new treatment approaches. Most importantly, you’re motivated to strengthen the vision health of the Columbia community.

Why You’ll Love in and Around Columbia

Living in Columbia, Maryland, offers the best of community-focused living with convenient access to both Baltimore and Washington, D.C. This thoughtfully designed community features 10 distinct villages connected by wooded pathways, along with abundant parks, lakes, pools, play areas, and open space.

Residents can enjoy year-round recreation, arts and cultural programs, shopping and dining in the Merriweather District, and live entertainment at Merriweather Post Pavilion.

With welcoming neighborhoods, family-friendly amenities, and plenty of ways to stay active and connected, Columbia offers a vibrant, well-rounded place to call home.

You’ll Enjoy a Range of Benefits, Including

  • Malpractice insurance
  • Production bonus

Minimum Qualifications

  • TPA certified in Maryland
  • Optometry license in the state of Maryland

Special Notice

This is not a career opportunity with VSP Vision or its companies. VSP Vision is helping PECAA Max Members recruit qualified applicants for their private practices. VSP Vision is not acting as a job placement agency or staffing firm. Applicants are not guaranteed a job interview or job offer.

The hiring decision and acceptance of this position is solely between the hiring practice and the applicant. The above information in this description was provided by the hiring practice. It has been designated to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee in this role.

It is not designed to contain, or be interpreted as, comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees hired in this role.

VSP Vision OD Recruitment Support

VSP Network Practices who are PECAA Max members in good standing benefit from access to dedicated VSP Vision recruiters to help them find qualified Optometrists. VSP Vision is not an employment agency and does not guarantee the placement of any practice professionals.

The practice shall have sole responsibility for all decisions in the hiring process including interviewing and hiring of practice professionals.

VSP Network Practices also benefit from access to other hiring related resources, including free job listings on the VSP Vision Optometry Career Site, which is linked to over 300 career sites.

VSP Vision is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to age, gender, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

Unincorporated LA County Residents: Qualified Applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act, and any other similar laws.

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Key Responsibilities

Provide comprehensive eye care services including primary vision care, medical eye care, and specialized treatments like myopia management and dry eye therapy. Collaborate with clinical and administrative teams to deliver personalized treatment plans and maintain a positive practice culture.

Requirements

Candidates must be TPA certified in Maryland and hold a valid Optometry license in the state of Maryland. The role requires a compassionate professional capable of delivering high-quality care to patients of all ages.

Optometry Career Context

VSP Vision holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 71/100, 80 active listings.

In Maryland, the Optometry weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$148k (50 salary observations; 121 listings), vs ~$151k nationally (702 salary observations; 4,595 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-02-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Optometry by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score3.6 / 10 · above average in optometryranked against 1,991 Optometry listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Listed paynot listedOptometry median $149k (middle half $144k–$151k)55 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Maryland vs national$148k median in Maryland$151k nationally (−2%)50 state / 702 national salary observations
Cost of livingMaryland index 105.0US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Optometry listings in Maryland72 active1,990 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 74% no call · 36% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentsign-on bonusUS healthcare professional listings: 32% state a sign-on bonus (median $20k) · 8% offer loan repayment1,000 active listings, Nov 2026
New Optometry listings578 in the last 30 days401 the 30 days before (+44%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Optometry pay trend+4.5% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
VSP Visionsilver tier, 71/100Top Employers work-life index80 active listings
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (1,991 Optometry listings), Top Employers work-life index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Top Optometrist Jobs

21 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

18 jobs · 12 employers
6
<$160k
7
$160k-175k
1
$177k
3
$190k-205k
1
$222k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

17 jobs · 12 employers
401k / retirement match
94%
CME allowance
65%
Sign-on bonus
53% this job
Loan repayment
24%
Relocation assistance
6%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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$159k–$222k
#2

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#3

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$121k-$196k
#4

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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 3.6
Better work-life than 60% of Optometry listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,991 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Columbia

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$445k
Typical market rent
$2,278/mo
Residents’ average commute
28 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
104.5
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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