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Dentists, All Other Specialists

US occupation · SOC 29-1029

Pay and outlook

Median annual wage, May 2025
$224,990
Half earn more, half earn less
Middle half earn
$166,130 – $280,590
25th to 75th percentile
People employed, May 2025
5,230
Wage and salary jobs (OEWS)
Projected change, 2025–35
+1.3%
Growing slower than all jobs (0% to under 3.5%)
Openings a year (projected)
100
New jobs plus replacing people who leave
Typical education to enter
Doctoral or professional degree
BLS
  • All figures are for the United States as a whole. Pay varies a lot by state and city.
  • Wages are for everyone working in the occupation in May 2025, at every career stage. They are not starting salaries or figures for new graduates.
  • Growth and openings are BLS projections for 2025–35. They are estimates, not promises. Openings include jobs that open up when people retire or change occupation, not just new jobs.

What the work involves

All dentists not listed separately.

Description and tasks from the O*NET® 31.0 Database.

Getting in

Typical education to enter (BLS)
Doctoral or professional degree
Training once hired: internship/residency

Fields of study that lead here

From the federal CIP–SOC crosswalk, which links 18 programmes to this occupation. A link means the programme prepares people for this kind of work. It doesn't mean the programme is required, or that it's the only route.

Health & Nursing

  • Dental Clinical Sciences, General
  • Oral Biology and Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
  • Dental Public Health and Education
  • Dental Materials
  • Endodontics/Endodontology
  • Periodontics/Periodontology
  • Digital Dentistry
  • Geriatric Dentistry
3 more programmes
  • Implantology/Implant Dentistry
  • Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences, Other
  • Temporomandibular Disorders and Orofacial Pain

Find colleges that fit you with our matcher: choose Health & Nursing at the Major step.

Where many students take health & nursing

Ordered by the field's share of degrees awarded times undergraduate enrolment (College Scorecard), among colleges with at least 1,000 undergraduates. Online universities are included. It's a rough measure of how big the programme is. It says nothing about quality. The share counts every programme in the field, not only the ones linked to this career.

Other fields

Our college matcher doesn't offer this field as a major, so we can't suggest colleges for it here.

Health Professions Residency/Fellowship Programs

  • Dental Public Health Residency Program
  • Endodontics Residency Program
  • Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Residency Program
  • Pediatric Dentistry Residency Program
  • Periodontology Residency Program
  • Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Residency Program
  • Dental Residency/Fellowship Program, Other

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Sources

This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. CollegeMatcher has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. O*NET 31.0 Database · CC BY 4.0

Changes: we show the core tasks in the O*NET database with the highest importance ratings (up to eight, in that order), the top three O*NET interest types by score, and shortened Job Zone names. Titles, descriptions and task text are unchanged.

Wages: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Projections, typical entry education and training: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025–35. Fields of study: NCES and BLS CIP 2020–SOC 2018 Crosswalk. All public domain. OEWS · Employment Projections · CIP–SOC crosswalk