Prescription Eyeglass Making
Everything OPM FedScope (June 2026) reports about the Prescription Eyeglass Making occupation series (code 4010): headcount, average salary, length of service, and pay comparison.
The verdict
With 125 employees (0.0% of the federal civilian workforce), Prescription Eyeglass Making ranks as a smaller, specialized federal occupation within the Lens and Crystal Work Family family. Its average salary of $65,549 pays below the federal average.
- Headcount change
- 0.0%
- Pay change
- -1.1%
- Avg tenure
- 11.5 yrs
FedScope read on Prescription Eyeglass Making (thin series)
For job seekers weighing career length: this series shows a mid-length average tenure, reflecting a mix of career employees and those who transfer or exit mid-career. Headcount moved sideways versus the prior period, though at this small a headcount, year-to-year swings can reflect a handful of hires or departures rather than a broad hiring trend. As for pay, the latest move was a modest shift, consistent with routine locality pay and grade-level movement.
Prescription Eyeglass Making sits inside the Lens and Crystal Work Family family (code 40), which contains 1 related occupations across the federal government. Candidates browsing USAJOBS for Prescription Eyeglass Making postings should also review these sibling occupations in the Lens and Crystal Work Family family. Across the Lens and Crystal Work Family family, 125 employees work in 1 occupations; Prescription Eyeglass Making is 100.0% of that headcount.
Salary context · lean-pay series
How Prescription Eyeglass Making pay compares to the federal average
Occupation Average
$65,549
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
-44.1%
Where Prescription Eyeglass Making ranks on lean federal pay
Prescription Eyeglass Making earns more on average than 21% of federal occupation series (112 of 541). The highlighted bar marks where Prescription Eyeglass Making sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 541 federal occupation series; the highlighted bar marks Prescription Eyeglass Making.
Nationwide peers near this thin headcount
Two peer sets for Prescription Eyeglass Making outside the Lens and Crystal Work Family family, on headcount and average salary axes that vary across all OPM occupation series.
Similar thin headcount
Nearest employee counts in other occupation families (125 here).
Similar lean average salary
Nearest average salaries in other occupation families ($65,549 here).
Key takeaways
- Place Prescription Eyeglass Making pay in context with the pay-rank chart above, then compare it with another occupation.
- Turn an average salary into a grade: the GS pay grade tables show how grades and steps map to pay.
- Browse the Lens and Crystal Work Family family occupations in the table above, or search current Prescription Eyeglass Making postings on USAJOBS.
OPM FedScope and Federal Workforce Data figures are federal civilian headcounts, average salaries, and length-of-service statistics - not job-quality scores, hiring advice, or a live vacancy listing. A larger or higher-paid agency is not a better employer.