Join the voice behind every optical career.
Free membership gives you anonymous salary benchmarks, career intelligence, role match-making and a seat at the table when the profession sets its standards.
- Members
- 30,000+ members
- Cost
- £0 forever
- Time
- 1 min to join
- Outcome
- 67% get a pay rise
The data is only honest if everyone is in it.
Paid memberships filter for the people who can afford to be counted. We'd rather have the assistant, the locum and the practice owner all in the same room, and let the data speak.
No paid tier, ever
The more professionals who join, the stronger the industry voice becomes. Membership is free because representation shouldn't sit behind a paywall.
Anonymous benchmarks
Your salary submission is never shown alongside your name. Aggregated benchmarks only.
Independent of any employer
We aren't a recruitment agency. We don't sell your data. We work for the profession.
Everything below, included with free membership.
There is no premium plan. This is the entire offer.
Without the Federation
You navigate the job market with the data the market chooses to show you.
- Job-board listings written by recruiters
- Salary 'guides' from a single employer's perspective
- No private way to score your own situation
- No collective voice when conditions slip
With free membership
You get the data first, in private, and the profession gets a representative voice.
- Anonymous, member-reported salary benchmarks
- A private Career Health Check report
- Roles only shown when you say yes
- 30,000-strong voice on pay and standards
Why people joined, in their own words.
“The benchmark gave me the number to ask for. The Career Health Check told me why my current job was wrong. Both free.”
“I'm a practice manager. I joined because I wanted to know what my team was being offered elsewhere. Now I do.”
“I almost left optics. The opportunity feed showed me there were three practices ten miles away running it the way I wanted.”
Ready to be counted?
One minute to join. Free for ever. Useful from the first benchmark.
Become a member →The honest answers.
Is it really free?+−
Yes. There is no paid tier, no upsell, no card on file. Members fund the Federation's voice by being counted, not by paying.
Will my employer find out?+−
No. Your profile is private by default. Employers in the federation only see you when you opt into a specific opportunity.
Who can join?+−
Optometrists, dispensing opticians, QDOs, practice managers, optical assistants and locums working in the UK. Students welcome.
What do you do with my data?+−
We aggregate it to publish anonymous benchmarks and to represent the profession. We never sell it. You can unsubscribe from membership communications at any time, and delete your account whenever you want.
The free membership the profession should have had years ago.
Join in one minute. See your real benchmark. Stay for the voice.