Dentists, All Other Specialists Salary and Pay
How much do Dentists, All Other Specialists make?
Dentists, All Other Specialists pay a median of $225,770 a year in the BLS May 2024 survey, with a mean of $246,530 across 5,900 counted jobs. Half of all workers in the occupation earn between $172,780 and $239,200 or more.
One page for the whole Dentists, All Other Specialists pay distribution: national ladder first, then all 27 state rows and the metro rankings, every figure from BLS OEWS May 2024.
Updated November 5, 2026
Salary converter for this occupation
Conversions use 12 months, 26 biweekly periods, 52 weeks, and 2,080 hours. This occupation's ladder does hit the BLS top code ($239,200 or more); the converter uses $239,200 for those levels and therefore understates them, by design.
The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)
| Pay level | Annual wage | Hourly wage |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $75,360 | $36.23 |
| 25th percentile | $172,780 | $83.07 |
| Median (50th) | $225,770 | $108.54 |
| 75th percentile | $239,200+ | $115.00+ |
| 90th percentile | $239,200+ | $115.00+ |
A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Dentists, All Other Specialists ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $172,780. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.
Employment and concentration
The occupation employed 5,900 people in May 2024, 0.00% of every job BLS counted. Minnesota is the largest employer at 330 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 11.5% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Minnesota, whose location quotient of 2.96 says this work is 2.96 times as dense there as it is nationwide.
BLS top-codes or suppresses part of this occupation's national ladder, so the published center is the median of $225,770 and the mean of $246,530. The state table below is the more useful negotiating document: it shows how far the same job title travels across the 27 states with published estimates.
Pay by state
Massachusetts posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $235,410, and Minnesota the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:
| State | Employment | Jobs per 1,000 | Location quotient | Mean annual | Median annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 330 | 0.1 | 2.96 | $147,810 | $129,990 |
| Arizona | 180 | 0.1 | 1.51 | $258,450 | $239,200+ |
| Ohio | 170 | 0.0 | 0.78 | $219,770 | $224,290 |
| Maryland | 160 | 0.1 | 1.49 | $191,060 | $199,990 |
| Michigan | 150 | 0.0 | 0.90 | n/p | n/p |
| Illinois | 100 | 0.0 | 0.44 | $240,740 | $222,960 |
| North Carolina | 100 | 0.0 | 0.55 | $197,390 | $213,380 |
| Indiana | 90 | 0.0 | 0.71 | n/p | n/p |
| Kentucky | 90 | 0.0 | 1.23 | n/p | n/p |
| Georgia | 80 | 0.0 | 0.44 | $183,650 | $194,210 |
| Arkansas | 70 | 0.1 | 1.36 | $188,920 | $175,720 |
| Oklahoma | 70 | 0.0 | 1.14 | $214,790 | $222,150 |
| Pennsylvania | 70 | 0.0 | 0.32 | $201,540 | $212,470 |
| Virginia | 70 | 0.0 | 0.42 | $228,290 | $219,460 |
| South Carolina | 60 | 0.0 | 0.68 | $246,490 | $239,200+ |
| New Mexico | 50 | 0.1 | 1.46 | $207,820 | $210,370 |
| Wisconsin | 50 | 0.0 | 0.46 | $234,770 | $231,070 |
| Connecticut | 40 | 0.0 | 0.70 | $290,670 | $223,620 |
| Montana | 40 | 0.1 | 1.89 | $223,020 | $235,410 |
| West Virginia | 40 | 0.1 | 1.46 | $198,990 | $231,860 |
| Alabama | 30 | 0.0 | 0.40 | $230,260 | $229,820 |
| Louisiana | 30 | 0.0 | 0.42 | $249,170 | $239,200+ |
| Missouri | 30 | 0.0 | 0.27 | $225,340 | $217,400 |
| Kansas | n/p | n/p | n/p | $292,360 | $239,200+ |
| Massachusetts | n/p | n/p | n/p | $218,190 | $235,410 |
| New Jersey | n/p | n/p | n/p | $195,230 | $202,110 |
| Texas | n/p | n/p | n/p | $244,950 | $227,570 |
The occupation in context
Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Dentists, All Other Specialists stands number 742 by employment and number 21 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, the group median wage is $98,340 across 71 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 130% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 9,592,720 jobs. In 6 of the 20 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $225,770, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.
Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV is the largest metro employer with 150 jobs, 2.5% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 18 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.
Largest metro employers
| Metropolitan area | Employment | Mean annual | Median annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | 150 | $196,260 | $199,990 |
| Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ | 120 | $257,240 | $239,200+ |
| Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD | 110 | $199,190 | $202,290 |
| Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN | 80 | $234,370 | $221,790 |
| San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX | 70 | $221,670 | $220,270 |
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | 60 | $272,830 | $227,570 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA | 50 | $214,510 | $220,840 |
| Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN | 40 | n/p | n/p |
| Cleveland, OH | 40 | $218,850 | $223,460 |
| Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | 30 | $184,880 | $211,370 |
What the median pay looks like as a budget
The median Dentists, All Other Specialists paycheck, gross, is $8,683 every two weeks on an annual $225,770, which is $18,814 a month and $4,342 a week. The top of this ladder is top-coded by BLS (shown as $239,200+), so the full experience premium cannot be printed from the published table; the 25th percentile, $172,780, is the firmest anchor for an early-career offer. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the median salary for Dentists, All Other Specialists?
$225,770 a year ($108.54), the middle wage among 5,900 counted workers in the BLS May 2024 estimates. The 75th percentile is $239,200 or more and the 90th is $239,200 or more.
Where are Dentists, All Other Specialists jobs concentrated?
By headcount, Minnesota leads with 330 jobs; by concentration, Minnesota leads with a location quotient of 2.96, meaning the occupation is 2.96 times as dense there as nationally.
What do the top 10% of Dentists, All Other Specialists earn?
$239,200 or more a year or more. The gap between the 90th percentile and the median ($225,770) is the size of the senior and specialist premium in this occupation.
How does EveryCalc get Dentists, All Other Specialists pay data?
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS bulk files for May 2024 (national, state, and metropolitan), downloaded November 5, 2026. Nothing on this page is self-reported by workers or scraped from job postings.