How Does Your Pay Compare? The 2027 Dental Salary Survey Is Open
Posted July 20, 2026
Help us build the clearest picture of dental pay in the industry.
Every year, thousands of dental professionals ask the same question: Am I getting paid what I’m worth?
The 2027 Dental Salary Survey is your chance to know.
The pulse of the profession
The survey collects compensation data across every role in the practice — hygienists, assistants, dentists, front office, and practice owners — along with benefits, hours, job satisfaction, and how pay is changing year over year.
The results are published in the 2027 State of the Dental Industry Report, the benchmark thousands of dental professionals use to negotiate raises, evaluate offers, and set fair compensation.
The whole survey takes just a few minutes and it covers the themes that matter most to today’s dental professionals:
- Compensation: Pay trends by role, state, and experience, across all 50 states
- Culture: Job satisfaction, benefits, and workplace conditions
- Careers: Professional growth, retirement expectations, and where dentistry is headed
What’s in it for you
By participating, you make the data more useful for others like you. When the report is published, you can see exactly where you stand, comparing your pay against professionals in your role, region, and experience level.
Having this data allows you to walk into your next negotiation with confidence.
With these insights, you can evaluate job offers with total clarity by comparing full compensation packages — including benefits and retirement plans — across specific roles and region.
What the 2026 Dental Industry Report revealed
Last year’s State of the Dental Industry Report surfaced some interesting trends.
- Stability is returning, but unevenly. Compensation, satisfaction, and retention improved across much of the dental workforce — with sharp differences by role and career stage.
- Warning signs are emerging. Beneath the overall rebound, some segments show declining satisfaction and rising pressure that could impact future retention.
- Mobility remains high. Roughly half of dental professionals are open to a job change, with flexibility, workload, and workplace environment increasingly shaping the decision.
So what will 2027 bring? Does the rebound hold — or do the warning signs grow? Are dental professionals still ready to move, or settling in?
Your answers to just a few questions will help us track these trends and more, building an accurate, comprehensive report that all of dentistry can rely on.
Why your answers matter
Benchmarks are only as good as the people in them. When your role, your state, and your experience level are represented, the report gets sharper for everyone.
All survey answers are published anonymously, never tied to names or profiles — and everyone who completes it gets early access to the full 2027 report before public release.
And a little extra
Complete the survey and you can enter to win one of our weekly prizes, including AirPods and an iPad! Eight weeks, eight winners. You could be next!
Help us build the industry’s leading compensation and workforce report.
Count yourself in.
We connect and educate more than 900,000 job seekers in the U.S. and Canada to build better places to work through teams that excel.
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