Dental Laboratory Technician salary in St. Cloud

At a verified median of $49,800, dental laboratory technicians in St. Cloud earn about the U.S. median. Among the 377 metro areas where the BLS reports dental laboratory technician pay, St. Cloud ranks 135th.

Compared with Minnesota as a whole (median $56,090), St. Cloud pays dental laboratory technicians about 11% 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 laboratory technicians in this metro area earn around $36,720, while the top tenth earn $70,950 or more — a spread of about $34,230. 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 50 dental laboratory technicians employed in St. Cloud — a measure of how deep the local job market is for the role.

Within St. Cloud, a dental laboratory technician earns about 4.2× less than a general dentist, about 2.0× less than a dental hygienist and about 1.2× less than a dental assistant ($208,000, $100,480, $61,000 respectively) — a quick way to see where the role sits in the local dental pay ladder.