29 Series · SOC 29-1024
Prosthodontists Salary
National pay, percentile range, growth outlook, and state-by-state detail from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS survey (May 2025).
- $311,180
- Median / year
- $344,750
- Top 10% earn
- +4.5%
- Growth '24–'34
- 870
- Estimated US jobs
Prosthodontists earn a median of $311,180 per year.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS survey, the median annual wage is $311,180, based on the most recent survey of employers. Reported pay ranges from $103,510 (10th percentile) to $344,750 (90th percentile) nationally, across roughly 870 estimated jobs in covered establishments.
The pay verdict
Prosthodontists earn a median of $311,180, putting them among the better-paid US occupations and higher than 99% of the 825 occupations with a published BLS median. Within Healthcare Practitioners and Technical, it ranks #11 of 71 by median pay. Employment is projected to grow 4.5% by 2034.
- $311,180
- Median annual wage
- Top 1%
- of 825 US occupations with published wages
- #11 of 71
- in Healthcare Practitioners and Technical
- 3.3×
- 90th-to-10th pay spread
Prosthodontists (SOC 29-1024) has a national median of $311,180 per year in the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics May 2025 release. The published 10th-to-90th-percentile boundaries run from $103,510 to $344,750, and the published mean is $268,630. Those summary statistics describe the estimated distribution; their difference alone does not identify its cause. OEWS estimates 870 jobs in covered establishments nationally. WageDex has published rows for 0 state or territory areas and 0 metropolitan or nonmetropolitan wage areas.
BLS Employment Projections forecast a +4.5% change in employment from 2024 to 2034, which we classify as about as fast as average relative to the all-occupations baseline of 3.1%. BLS assigns Doctoral or professional degree as typical education needed for entry, and BLS classifies its typical on-the-job preparation as internship/residency. BLS does not publish a separate occupation-specific fatality and injury rate for this role in the current release. The safety panel below shows its broad Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations SOC-group context and is not an occupation-level measurement or ranking.
Geographic variation matters as much as the headline median. Pair the national median with the state and metropolitan-area rows below while keeping the geography and statistic consistent. OEWS includes tips, commissions, incentive pay, and production bonuses, but not employer benefits, overtime premiums, stock compensation, or nonproduction bonuses. See our methodology for the sourcing and calculation details.
Median Salary
$311,180
per year
Median Hourly
$149.61/hr
per hour
Mean Salary
$268,630
average
Employment
870
jobs nationwide
How does this pay compare nationally?
Where Prosthodontists pay sits nationally
Median annual wage vs. 825 detailed BLS occupations with a published median
$311,180 Top 1% higher than 99% of 825 US occupations
Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more US occupations. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Read the chart as text · as of May 2025
| Band | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| $0–$20,000 | 0 US occupations | 0% |
| $20,000–$40,000 | 98 US occupations | 12% |
| $40,000–$60,000 | 298 US occupations | 36% |
| $60,000–$80,000 | 209 US occupations | 25% |
| $80,000–$100,000 | 82 US occupations | 10% |
| $100,000–$120,000 | 58 US occupations | 7% |
| $120,000–$140,000 | 32 US occupations | 4% |
| $140,000–$160,000 | 14 US occupations | 2% |
| $160,000–$180,000 | 9 US occupations | 1% |
| $180,000 and above (this entry) | 25 US occupations | 3% |
$311,180 · 99th percentile of 825 US occupations
Source U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS · May 2025
Does this job pay well and grow?
Each dot is a 29-series occupation, placed by projected 2024–2034 growth and median pay. The highlighted dot is Prosthodontists; the upper-right quadrant is the sweet spot (high pay + fast growth).
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- Registered Nurses: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 4.9%, Median annual wage $97550
- Licensed Practical a…: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 2.6%, Median annual wage $64400
- Pharmacy Technicians: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 6.4%, Median annual wage $45750
- Physicians, All Other: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 2.5%, Median annual wage $265930
- Clinical Laboratory …: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 1.7%, Median annual wage $62930
- Nurse Practitioners: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 40.1%, Median annual wage $132300
- Pharmacists: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 4.6%, Median annual wage $140910
- Physical Therapists: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 10.9%, Median annual wage $102760
- Radiologic Technolog…: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 4.3%, Median annual wage $80110
- Dental Hygienists: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 7%, Median annual wage $98100
- Medical Records Spec…: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 7.1%, Median annual wage $51140
- Speech-Language Path…: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 15%, Median annual wage $97870
- Health Technologists…: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 5.2%, Median annual wage $50290
- Emergency Medical Te…: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 5.1%, Median annual wage $44470
- Occupational Therapi…: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 13.8%, Median annual wage $100330
- Physician Assistants: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 20.4%, Median annual wage $135880
- Psychiatric Technici…: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 20%, Median annual wage $45130
- Respiratory Therapists: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 12.1%, Median annual wage $82280
- Veterinary Technolog…: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 9.1%, Median annual wage $47380
- Dentists, General: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 4.1%, Median annual wage $170950
- Surgical Technologists: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 4.5%, Median annual wage $64650
- Family Medicine Phys…: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 2.7%, Median annual wage $244180
- Paramedics: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 5%, Median annual wage $60600
- Diagnostic Medical S…: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 13%, Median annual wage $96590
- Prosthodontists: Projected growth 2024–2034 (%) 4.5%, Median annual wage $311180
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS (wages, May 2025) and Employment Projections (2024–2034).
Job Outlook (2024–2034)
Projected Growth
+4.5%
About as fast as average
Typical Education
Doctoral or professional degree
On-the-Job Training
Internship/residency
Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–2034
Workplace Safety
All safety ratings →Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations context
Broad SOC context, not an occupation grade
Fatality Rate
0.7/100K
Injury Rate
1.5/100
Danger Index
6.4/100
Source: BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) & Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), 2023
Career Intelligence
Skills, knowledge, and tasks most important for Prosthodontists roles, ranked by importance. Source: O*NET.
Top Skills
Knowledge Areas
Key Tasks
- ▸ Examine patients to diagnose oral health conditions and diseases.
- ▸ Fit prostheses to patients, making any necessary adjustments and modifications.
- ▸ Replace missing teeth and associated oral structures with permanent fixtures, such as implant-supported prostheses, crowns and bridges, or removable fixtures, such as dentures.
- ▸ Measure and take impressions of patients' jaws and teeth to determine the shape and size of dental prostheses, using face bows, dental articulators, recording devices, and other materials.
- ▸ Collaborate with general dentists, specialists, and other health professionals to develop solutions to dental and oral health concerns.
- ▸ Design and fabricate dental prostheses, or supervise dental technicians and laboratory bench workers who construct the devices.
- ▸ Restore function and aesthetics to traumatic injury survivors, or to individuals with diseases or congenital disabilities.
- ▸ Repair, reline, or rebase dentures.
- ▸ Use bonding technology on the surface of the teeth to change tooth shape or to close gaps.
- ▸ Treat facial pain and jaw joint problems.
Source: O*NET Online, National Center for O*NET Development. Data represents typical importance ratings for this occupation.
Salary Range
Annual Salary Distribution
Hourly Rate Distribution
Prosthodontists pay history, 2015–2025
Published national median across 7 BLS OEWS releases. Nominal dollars, not inflation-adjusted.
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| Period | National median |
|---|---|
| 2015 | $119,740 |
| 2016 | $126,050 |
| 2017 | $185,150 |
| 2018 | $176,540 |
| 2021 | $100,950 |
| 2023 | $234,000 |
| 2025 | $311,180 |
2015 median
$119,740
2025 median
$311,180
2021–2025 change (same SOC)
+$210,230 (+208.3%)
Avg/year (same SOC)
+32.5%
| Release | Median | Change | Estimated jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | $119,740 | First banked release | 710 |
| May 2016 | $126,050 | +5.3% | 750 |
| May 2017 | $185,150 | +46.9% | 430 |
| May 2018 | $176,540 | -4.7% | 380 |
| May 2021 | $100,950 | Classification break | 790 |
| May 2023 | $234,000 | +131.8% | 570 |
| May 2025 | $311,180 | +33.0% | 870 |
Across the 7 releases WageDex holds for this occupation, the published national median went from $119,740 in May 2015 to $311,180 in May 2025. Within the SOC-2018 classification (2021–2025), the like-for-like change averages +32.5% per year in nominal terms. Within the same SOC classification, estimated employment went from 790 in May 2021 to 870 in May 2025.
Each figure is a separate BLS survey estimate, so a change between releases reflects the estimated occupation-wide median in each year. It is not the raise any individual worker received, and it is not adjusted for inflation. Years where BLS did not publish an annual median for this occupation are omitted rather than filled in. This span also crosses a classification change: releases before May 2021 use the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification and later releases use the 2018 SOC, so figures either side of that boundary are not strictly like-for-like. Headline change rates on this page use only the same-classification subset.
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Nationwide occupations with similar pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside this SOC major group (Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations). Same-category cards above stay inside the group; these neighborhoods are cross-group nearest neighbors on national median pay ($311,180 here) and reported employment (870 jobs here).
Similar median pay
Nearest other detailed occupations by BLS OEWS national median annual wage.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS national median annual wage and reported employment. Employment peers exclude occupations already listed in the pay column so the two link sets stay distinct.
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What to do with this data
How to use Prosthodontists pay figures in a real decision
- The 75th-percentile wage is about $333,480/year. Treat it as the upper-quartile market boundary, not an automatic target for experience alone; role scope, location, industry, credentials, performance, and employer context still need separate evidence. Salary calculator
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These are BLS survey estimates for the occupation, not a salary offer or a prediction for any individual. Your pay depends on experience, employer, exact role, and location.
Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation wages use BLS OEWS May 2025; outlook uses BLS Employment Projections for 2024–2034; safety, skills, knowledge, and task panels identify their BLS or O*NET sources in context. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.
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