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.
It separates your operational labor (front office, hygiene, back office) from owner and family compensation — so you see the number that actually reflects staffing efficiency, not just the headline.
Four quick inputs to shape the calculation. Defaults reflect a typical 4-day GP practice.
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.
Two ways to get your staff in: drop a payroll PDF below and we’ll pull the roster, rates, and hours automatically — or skip the upload and enter your staff by hand in the next step.
Supported (best-effort): ADP, Gusto, Paychex, Heartland, Eaglesoft, Dentrix, and generic payroll exports.
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Add positions manually, or upload a payroll PDF above to auto-fill them with names. 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.
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.
Total loaded cost across every paid role in the practice — staff, owner, family. This is what labor costs you per period.
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Numbers in this calculator are derived from the staff and rates you entered, with the employer-load and operating-day assumptions you set above.