Dentist
Performs clinical dentistry, usually as owner or partner of a practice. Craft, care and small business in one seat.
- Pay band (est.)
- $173k–$220k
- Time to competence
- 8 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- clinic
- Leverage
- high
- Place constraint
- low
- Physical demand
- 55/100
- Hours burden
- 62/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play27th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge43th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage86th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand61th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay97th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body37th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy64th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit36th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility54th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill16th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance27th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Heavy debt and equipment cost; neck, back and hands.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is low. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 62/100 and people intensity 80/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Dentists, General (29-1021): median $172,790, 75th percentile (90th not published) $220,380. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, +5.7%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.