Dental Assistants in North Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,598
after federal, FICA and North Dakota tax
Tax takes
$9,172
15.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,869
North Dakota costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in North Dakota — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$57,770
Kept after tax
$48,598
Worth in national money
$54,869
State rank
8
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for dental assistants is strong here. North Dakota's middle earner gets $57,770, putting the state 8 of 50 — about 20.18% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in North Dakota, this sits in the middle: 262 of 460 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- North Dakota is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $57,770 the take-home is $48,598; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $54,869 would nationally. The average lands at $56,450, below the middle of the range.
- For dental assistants, North Dakota sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $57,770, ranking 8 of 50 and running about 20.18% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Dental assistants ranks 262 of 460 occupations in North Dakota by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Post-tax income for dental assistants in North Dakota, on $57,770, is $48,598 — equivalent to $54,869 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $56,450 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Dental Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,680 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,770 |
| Top tenth earn over | $72,710 |
| This salary | $57,770 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in North Dakota | $48,598 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,598 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,858 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $57,770 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,875 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 89 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in North Dakota earn less than $57,770. The published range is $43,680 up to $72,710, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $48,598 take-home in North Dakota comes from $57,770. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 262 of 460.
- Two cautions on $54,869, the adjusted value of that $57,770 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of North Dakota. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 262 of 460 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for dental assistants in North Dakota the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $43,680 to $72,710. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $48,598, from $57,770, assumes a single North Dakota filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 262 of 460 locally, and the state ranks 8 of 50 for it.
- This $54,869 adjusted figure, worked from $57,770, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 262 of 460 in the state. The occupation ranks 262 of 460 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $43,680 at the tenth percentile, $72,710 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. North Dakota is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $54,869 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and North Dakota's own levy, $48,598 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($43,680 to $72,710) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to North Dakota rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
North Dakota's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $54,869 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $48,598 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and North Dakota income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.