Dental Assistant jobs

Right now there are 128 dental assistant openings on our board, and 15 of them arrived in the last seven days. 1 of them are fully remote. The board refreshes every night, so the count moves with the market.

28 of the 128 openings state a salary. Across those, the middle half of posted pay runs from $40k to $61k a year. We only count postings that state pay, so this is what employers are advertising today, not an estimate. For the fuller picture by seniority and market, see the dental assistant salary page.

The three skills dental assistant postings name most often are Patient Care (16% of postings), Infection Control (12%) and Radiography (11%). Those percentages are simply how many of the postings we read mention each one, so you can see which are near-universal and which are nice to have. Every skill, defined: the glossary.

Yes, and we can tell you from where. 5 measured routes lead into dental assistant work. The closest is from medical assistant: a typical medical assistant profile already covers 78% of what dental assistant postings ask for, and the route page lists the exact skills that make up the rest.