Two numbers every practice owner should know: your monthly labor burn and the production level required to support it. This calculator shows you both — fast, no signup, your data never leaves your browser.
The deeper analysis — operational vs. owner comp splits, hygiene productivity, fee schedule alignment, contract-labor reconciliation — is part of a full Perform DDS practice assessment. This is the high-level read.
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 but unlocks the 3× hygiene and 20% labor benchmarks.
Pick the way that fits your situation. You can always switch later.
Total loaded cost across every W-2 in the practice — staff, owner, family. This is what labor costs you per period.
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Top-decile benchmark: 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. That means you need to produce roughly 2.5× your total labor to be in healthy territory.
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.
Book a discovery callNumbers 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.