Audiology is a great profession, but you will have to be willing to move to where the jobs are. It's not like speech language pathology or nursing or many other healthcare fields. So yes there are tons of jobs, but there are not usually many high paying jobs in rural areas. Most of the jobs are in snowbird country where seniors live. You can make good money in audiology and it's a nice field to work in. I was in nursing and I prefer my audiology clinic schedule over being on call or seeing a ton of patients in a day as I would have had to as a nurse.
You also have to remember audiology is a very young field too. It's growing in power and recognition, but it still has a very long way to go. In most areas you would actually make more as a speech language pathologist and work the same type of schedule, but it really comes down to how your brain works. Me I would hate to work on articulation therapy for months at a time and see no improvement in a patient. That to me would be torture. I enjoy in audiology there is just enough counseling to keep it fun and fluid, but there is a set protocol and a lot of concrete processes from evaluation to treatment.
I know it's a lot to think about. You will be spending 2 extra years in school to work a career that will make the same or often times less than a masters program makes and with fewer job offers in your geographical area (most likely). None of us are audiologists because of the money. I could have easily been a clinical psychologist, a nurse practitioner, a physician assistant, or even a full fledged physician with my background and skill set and be making easily double what I make now, but I still get up and go to work everyday and love what I do. I'm happy with my decision to become an audiologist.
