District of Columbia Dental Assistant Salaries
By an allied health world contributing writer
Published: January 22nd, 2010
Washington is the hub for most dental assistants in the District of Columbia. They earn almost $20 an hour on average. The yearly average District of Columbia Dental Assistant salary is $40,940. Currently there are jobs listed for dental assistants in the District of Columbia that offer as much as $60,000 a year. The average annual income for a dental assistant in the United States is $37,000, which makes the average in the District of Columbia slightly higher than the national average. It is also hard to get an accurate salary average of dental assistants since many work on a part-time basis.
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