Free Tool · Labor & Production Targets for Dental Practices

What does your practice need to produce to cover labor?

Top-performing dental practices keep labor at 40% of production or under. Plug in your team and see what your practice needs to produce to hit that mark — daily, weekly, and monthly.

The deeper analysis — operational vs. owner comp splits, hygiene productivity, fee schedule alignment, contract-labor reconciliation — is what we deliver in a full Perform DDS practice assessment. This is the surface read.

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1Set your practice context

Four quick inputs to shape the calculation. Defaults reflect a typical 4-day GP practice.

Operating days / week

Open hours / day

Employer load multiplier

Monthly production

Loaded cost = gross wages × employer load multiplier (covers FICA, FUTA, SUTA, workers' comp, benefits). Adjust if your practice's burden runs above or below 15%. Monthly production is optional — enter it to see how your actual production stacks up against the 40% labor target.

2Add your staff

No names — just enter the position, pay type, rate, and hours per week. Roles are pre-organized into the buckets Perform DDS uses on client engagements. Rate is hourly wage for hourly staff, or annual salary for salaried staff.

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Practice Labor & Production Analysis

What you need to produce

What well-run practices look like: labor at 40% of production or under. Above 40% means production is short — the rest of overhead (rent, supplies, lab, doctor take-home) gets squeezed. You need to produce roughly 2.5× your total labor to be in healthy territory.

Daily Production Floor

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Per working day to keep labor at 40%

Weekly Production Target

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Per operating week to keep labor at 40%

Monthly Production Target

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2.5× total loaded labor (labor at 40%)

Your labor burn

Total loaded cost across every paid role in the practice — staff, owner, family. This is what labor costs you per period.

Per Hour

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Per Working Day

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Per Week

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Per Month

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By role

Role	Monthly $	% of Total

What this calculator does and doesn't do: This is a high-level look — total practice labor (staff + owner total comp + family) compared against production. It does not include specialist providers paid 1099 (visiting endo, perio, ortho, oral surgery) — those live in the GL under contract labor, not payroll. It also doesn't break out operational staff from owner comp, or evaluate hygiene productivity, fee schedule alignment, or scheduling efficiency. Those are all part of a full Perform DDS practice assessment.

This is the surface. Want the full picture?

A real Perform DDS labor analysis pulls month-over-month variance, hygiene-production-per-loaded-dollar, terminated-staff lapse cost, owner/family comp tax positioning, and specialist 1099 reconciliation — from your actual payroll PDFs and Dentrix/Eaglesoft/Open Dental exports. The above is the calculator version. The real version is what we deliver to clients.

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Numbers in this calculator are derived from the staff and rates you entered, with employer-load and operating-day assumptions you set above. For consulting-grade analysis (variance, benchmarking, hygiene productivity, etc.), engage Perform DDS directly.