Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Salary and Pay
How much do Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons make?
Median pay for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons is $239,200 or more a year ($115.00 or more per hour); the mean is $360,240. The occupation employed 5,330 people in May 2024, and its middle band runs from $236,780 to $239,200 or more.
The complete pay picture for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons: 5,330 jobs nationally, a median of $239,200 or more, and the state and metro tables that show where that median is beaten and where it is not.
Updated November 5, 2026
Salary converter for this occupation
Hourly figures use the BLS full-time convention of 2,080 hours a year. The converter loads this occupation's own ladder, median $239,200 or more first; type any offer into the custom box to price it against the same year.
The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)
| Pay level | Annual wage | Hourly wage |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $82,960 | $39.89 |
| 25th percentile | $236,780 | $113.84 |
| Median (50th) | $239,200+ | $115.00+ |
| 75th percentile | $239,200+ | $115.00+ |
| 90th percentile | $239,200+ | $115.00+ |
The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($82,960) to the 90th ($239,200 or more). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.
Employment and concentration
May 2024 employment stood at 5,330, or 0.00% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 930 jobs; the top three states sum to 34.1% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: South Dakota posts a location quotient of 4.47, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.
BLS top-codes or suppresses part of this occupation's national ladder, so the published center is the median of $239,200 or more and the mean of $360,240. The state table below is the more useful negotiating document: it shows how far the same job title travels across the 14 states with published estimates.
Pay by state
Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 14 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is at ; the jobs leader is California:
| State | Employment | Jobs per 1,000 | Location quotient | Mean annual | Median annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 930 | 0.1 | 1.49 | $282,890 | $239,200+ |
| New York | 560 | 0.1 | 1.69 | n/p | n/p |
| Florida | 330 | 0.0 | 0.96 | n/p | n/p |
| North Carolina | 230 | 0.0 | 1.37 | $400,440 | $239,200+ |
| Georgia | 140 | 0.0 | 0.82 | $179,080 | $239,200+ |
| Alabama | 110 | 0.1 | 1.58 | $393,490 | $239,200+ |
| Iowa | 110 | 0.1 | 1.99 | $239,200+ | $239,200+ |
| Michigan | 110 | 0.0 | 0.70 | $278,310 | $239,200+ |
| New Hampshire | 90 | 0.1 | 4.02 | n/p | n/p |
| Tennessee | 80 | 0.0 | 0.74 | n/p | n/p |
| South Dakota | 70 | 0.2 | 4.47 | n/p | n/p |
| Washington | 40 | 0.0 | 0.31 | n/p | n/p |
| Kentucky | n/p | n/p | n/p | $239,200+ | $239,200+ |
| Pennsylvania | n/p | n/p | n/p | $325,160 | $239,200+ |
The occupation in context
Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons stands number 755 by employment and number 1 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 143% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 9,592,720 jobs. In 0 of the 0 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $239,200 or more, 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
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 400 jobs, 7.5% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.
Largest metro employers
| Metropolitan area | Employment | Mean annual | Median annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | 400 | n/p | n/p |
| Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC | 80 | $239,200+ | $239,200+ |
| Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI | 50 | $305,900 | $239,200+ |
| Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD | 50 | $239,200+ | $239,200+ |
| Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO | n/p | $239,200+ | $239,200+ |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA | n/p | $291,190 | $239,200+ |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA | n/p | $317,960 | $239,200+ |
What the median pay looks like as a budget
Budget arithmetic on the median: $19,933 a month before tax, $9,200 biweekly, $4,600 weekly. 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, $236,780, is the firmest anchor for an early-career offer. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the median salary for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons?
$239,200 or more a year ($115.00 or more per hour), the middle wage among 5,330 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 Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons jobs concentrated?
By headcount, California leads with 930 jobs; by concentration, South Dakota leads with a location quotient of 4.47, meaning the occupation is 4.47 times as dense there as nationally.
What do the top 10% of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons earn?
$239,200 or more a year or more. The gap between the 90th percentile and the median ($239,200 or more) is the size of the senior and specialist premium in this occupation.
How does EveryCalc get Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons 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.