Prosthodontists

$311,180 puts Prosthodontists among the highest medians BLS publishes, roughly 522% above the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint. Pay at this level always has a gate in front of it: a residency, a bar exam, a clearance, or a decade.

National employment of 870 makes Prosthodontists a rare job rather than an uncommon one. Expect to move for the first post and to move again for the second, because waiting for a local vacancy can mean waiting years.

These roles suit people who want responsibility for the whole of a patient’s problem rather than a part of it, and who can carry that home without it consuming them.

How long it takes to become one of the 870 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.

A quarter of Prosthodontists earn under $252,050 and a quarter over $333,480: 1.3x, and $81,430 between the ends. That is a narrow band — enough room to be paid better than average, not enough for the occupation to be a route to a materially different income.

The bottom quarter of this field earns $252,050 — $121.17 an hour, $202,030 above the $50,020 national midpoint. When even the worst-paid quarter of Prosthodontists is this far ahead, the barrier to entry is doing the work of keeping it there.

Avoid it if the length and cost of the training would be unbearable if you changed your mind halfway.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 870 people employed as Prosthodontists; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

A 1.3x ratio from $252,050 to $333,480 makes $311,180 a dependable planning number. Dependable is the whole offer here — there is not much room above it.

The middle half of this field earns between $252,050 and $333,480. That is $81,430 of range, with $311,180 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

The 75th percentile is $333,480. Reaching it from the $311,180 midpoint is $22,300 a year; reaching it from the $252,050 that the bottom quarter of Prosthodontists earn is $81,430.

The midpoint sits high inside its own range: $59,130 above the $252,050 bottom quarter but only $22,300 below the $333,480 top quarter. Most of the distance in Prosthodontists is spent climbing out of the bottom, and once you are past the middle there is not much further to go.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $149.60 at the midpoint for Prosthodontists, $121.17 at the 25th percentile and $160.32 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.