Dental Hygienists
Income Percentile Results
Total Income of $55,000 ranks between the 50.2th and 67.9th percentiles for all education levels. These results were estimated off of 111,518 Dental Hygienists.
50th Percentile (Median) Income for any Education Level: $54,87775th Percentile: $70,408
95th Percentile: $110,000
99th Percentile: $259,445
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Income Percentile Stats
- To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $259,445 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 $110,000 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
Income of Dental Hygienists by Highest Education Level
Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels:- Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 60.5th and 60.5th percentiles.
- Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 43.6th and 55.7th percentiles.
- Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 30th and 46.3th percentiles.
- Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 41.1th and 59th percentiles.
- Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 80.7th and 85.8th percentiles.
Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level
Highest Level of Education for Dental Hygienists:- Other (N/A or Less than HS): 0.7%
- HS Diploma / GED: 4.1%
- Associates Degree and Some College: 59%
- Bachelors Degree: 31.4%
- Masters Degree: 2.7%
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 2%
- Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 0.1%
Most Common Bachelors Degree Majors
- For Medical and Health Sciences and Services undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 41.6th and 61.4th percentiles.
- For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 31.4th and 50.7th percentiles.
- For Biology and Life Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 50.1th and 63.2th percentiles.
- For Physical Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 36.4th and 47.7th percentiles.
- For Education Administration and Teaching undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 33.8th and 52.3th percentiles.
- For Psychology undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 48.6th and 77.3th percentiles.
- For Social Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 45.7th and 49.5th percentiles.
- For Liberal Arts and Humanities undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 55.8th and 74th percentiles.
- For Physical Fitness, Parks, Recreation, and Leisure undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 34.8th and 49.8th percentiles.
- For Communications undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 40.2th and 53.2th 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 111,518 Dental Hygienists. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 3310 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