Dental Connections surveys local dental assistants on an annual basis to produce accurate, comprehensive, and current statistics about their wages and benefits in dental offices. The answers to this survey are completely anonymous and provide the most up to date and accurate statistics available anywhere.
We interact with thousands of workers/dental offices for temporary and permanent placement annually. This gives us a strong understanding of what current compensation packages are before the survey is conducted. The wage data below is consistent with our market knowledge and current job postings on Indeed, Facebook, etc.
This survey combines ALL types of dental assistants: basic, expanded, speciality, EFDAs, part-time, full-time, experienced, new grads, etc. EFDAs were surveyed separately from dental assistants. Their average hourly rate is broken out below the county averages.
Full-time workers receive more benefits than part-time workers. Take this into account while analyzing the benefit statistics (30% of respondents are part time workers lowering several of the benefit percentages).
