Dental Assistant salary in Urban Honolulu

At a verified median of $42,750, dental assistants in Urban Honolulu earn modestly below the U.S. median of $48,070 — a gap of about 11%. Among the 377 metro areas where the BLS reports dental assistant pay, Urban Honolulu ranks 332nd.

Compared with Hawaii as a whole (median $44,720), Urban Honolulu pays dental assistants about 4% less than the statewide median. Local demand, cost of labor, and the mix of practices drive most of that difference.

The pay range is wide: the lowest-paid tenth of dental assistants in this metro area earn around $31,540, while the top tenth earn $49,510 or more — a spread of about $17,970. That gap reflects experience, practice setting, and local demand more than any single factor, so an individual offer can sit well above or below the midpoint.

The BLS counts roughly 1,450 dental assistants employed in Urban Honolulu — a measure of how deep the local job market is for the role.

Within Urban Honolulu, a dental assistant earns about 3.9× less than a general dentist and about 2.3× less than a dental hygienist ($168,090, $96,440 respectively) — a quick way to see where the role sits in the local dental pay ladder.