Dental Assistants
Income Percentile Results
Total Income of $55,000 ranks between the 93.9th and 96.8th percentiles for all education levels. These results were estimated off of 235,670 Dental Assistants.
50th Percentile (Median) Income for any Education Level: $30,63975th Percentile: $39,000
95th Percentile: $58,992
99th Percentile: $120,000
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Income Percentile Stats
- To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $120,000 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
- To be in the top 5% for this age range, your household would need an income of $58,992 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
Income of Dental Assistants by Highest Education Level
Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels. There is not a lot of data for people with Masters Degrees, Professional Degrees, or Doctoral Degrees, so this data may be misleading.:- Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 91.7th and 96.3th percentiles.
- Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 86.6th and 88.1th percentiles.
- Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 82.7th and 87.4th percentiles.
- Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 81.9th and 85.2th percentiles.
- Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 95.6th and 98th percentiles.
Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level
Highest Level of Education for Dental Assistants:- Other (N/A or Less than HS): 3%
- HS Diploma / GED: 26.3%
- Associates Degree and Some College: 60.9%
- Bachelors Degree: 7.9%
- Masters Degree: 0.5%
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 1.2%
- Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 0.2%
Most Common Bachelors Degree Majors
- For Medical and Health Sciences and Services undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 84.8th and 90.2th percentiles.
- For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 74.6th and 77.4th percentiles.
- For Biology and Life Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 91.1th and 94th percentiles.
- For Education Administration and Teaching undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 85.8th and 86.3th percentiles.
- For Psychology undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 80.1th and 84.2th percentiles.
- For Physical Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 100th and 100th percentiles.
- For Social Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 69.3th and 70.9th percentiles.
- For Physical Fitness, Parks, Recreation, and Leisure undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 80.9th and 87.4th percentiles.
- For English Language, Literature, and Composition undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 85.3th and 92.2th percentiles.
- For Communications undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 94.4th and 94.4th percentiles.
Treemap of Undergraduate Majors
Methodology and Assumptions
This data was sourced from the person-level data recorded by the American Communities Survey. The version of the survey used was the most recent 5 year revision for data recorded from 2013-2017. These results represent 235,670 Dental Assistants. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 3640 to read more about the occupation codes that the ACS and Census use. These results were generated in R using raw data from the ACS and precalculated in a batch. This data includes all individual income for the survey respondent, so some of the people may have a wage job as well as other income sources. I did not limit to wage income, because many occupations have high portions of entrepreneurs (CEOs, doctors, tradespeople).
Exclusions and Filters Applied:- Filtered for people who reported working at least 30 hours a week.
- High School Graduates and GED graduates were original 2 separate categories that I combined.
- Anything below High School Graduates is combined into a separate category. I did not include these on the page for space reason but I can. The data has data for associate degree holders and some college and these values are mostly in between the high school and bachelors samples. There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between some college and an associates degree.
- All ages are included and not separated. I did some initial testing and there is a difference if the data is split out by age, but I wasn't able to consolidate the data into a way that would make it fast to interact with and avoid being too complicated.
- There may be some confusion around a masters degree vs a professional degree beyond a masters. This was a distinction made in the original raw data that I decided to keep. Because the data is collected by polling people individually, some of the respondents may have mixed up the difference depending on how they phrased their response.
- Masters Degree : MBA, Masters in Something
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors Degree: Law Degree, Medical School, generally these degrees are credentials for specific careers.
- Doctoral Degree: PHd