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What are dentists
actually getting paid?

Compensation numbers for dentists, specialists and hygienists, sorted by role, specialty, state and practice type. Survey rows name their source; community rows are anonymous and unverified. Employers always know. Now you do too.

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Only figures we could check against a named public source are shown here, each with its source, year and the date we checked it. Dentist and specialist pay is in the table below, where each row names its source or says it is a community submission.

💰Associate pay: production vs. collections
⚠️The 35%-of-WHAT trap
Production vs. collections can change your paycheck a lot. Worked example: if a practice collects 80¢ on each dollar produced, 35% of collections is about 28% of production (0.35 x 0.80). Always ask which base an offer means.
Source: Dental Agora arithmetic example, not a survey figure
🦷Dental hygienists
$98,100 median annual wage
🩺Dental assistants
$48,070 median annual wage ($23.11/hr)

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