Dental Office Manager salary: how much do office managers make?
As of 2024, the median dental office manager in the U.S. earns $60,000 ($28.85/hr). This figure is an modeled estimate, not a verified local survey value.
No dental-specific BLS series exists for office managers. Modeled from the OEWS "Medical Secretaries" (43-6013) baseline scaled up for supervisory scope, bounded below by "Health Services Managers" (11-9111). Treat as an estimate pending verified survey or user-submitted data.
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Pay distribution
Full dental office manager wage distribution. Values marked “est.” are interpolated between published percentiles.
| Percentile | Annual pay |
|---|---|
| 10th percentilei | $42,000 |
| 25th percentilei | $48,750est. |
| Median (50th)i | $60,000 |
| 75th percentilei | $75,625est. |
| 90th percentilei | $85,000 |
What drives office manager pay
- Practice size and number of providers
- Single office vs. multi-location/DSO operations role
- Billing and collections responsibility
- Geographic cost of labor
- Years of management experience
About the role
Dental office managers oversee the non-clinical operations of a practice: front-desk staff, scheduling, insurance and billing, collections, HR, and compliance. BLS does not publish a dedicated dental-office-manager wage series, so the figure shown here is MODELED from adjacent health-services-management and medical-administrative OEWS codes and is labelled as an estimate.
Career path
- Front-office or treatment-coordinator experience
- Office manager for a single practice
- Regional operations manager / DSO operations
Typical responsibilities
- Supervise front-office and administrative staff
- Oversee scheduling, billing, and collections
- Manage insurance verification and claims
- Handle hiring, payroll coordination, and compliance
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