JobPlots Research

The Dental Jobs Market

A current view of dental hiring activity from JobPlots. We structure live job inventory by role, location and employment type so dental professionals and practices can see where hiring demand is showing up now.

Data snapshot updated September 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM UTC.

3,273active dental jobs
2,953hiring facilities
100%with city + state
58%show a pay figure

Current role mix

Which dental roles are hiring?

3,273 currently published JobPlots listings

Dentist-family roles — Dentist plus Associate Dentist — account for 648 listings (19.8%) in the current JobPlots inventory.

Employment type

Most current listings are full-time

Full-time2,702 · 82.6%
Part-time549 · 16.8%
Contract15

Hiring inventory by state

States with the most JobPlots listings

What is JobPlots?

A dental jobs marketplace and structured hiring dataset

JobPlots organizes dental job openings into consistent role, location, employment-type and compensation fields. Individual job pages show the hiring organization and application path, while role and location pages help candidates compare active opportunities in a specific market.

Browse all dental jobs, dentist jobs, dental hygienist jobs, dental assistant jobs, or dental front desk jobs.

Methodology

How to interpret these numbers

  • Counts represent currently published JobPlots inventory, not an estimate of every dental opening in the United States.
  • JobPlots deduplicates repeated listings and applies employer/source quality filters during ingestion. Those filters are not a census and can evolve.
  • “Pay disclosed” means the structured listing contains at least one positive pay figure; it does not imply that every compensation component is captured.
  • State rankings exclude listings where JobPlots does not yet have both a city and state.
  • The page is generated from JobPlots' public SEO snapshot, so crawlers can read the research without triggering a live database query.

Snapshot timestamp: 2026-09-12T08:00:22.453Z