Dentist Salary
Official ONS earnings for the UK, covering 8,000 jobs.
ONS doesn't publish an annual pay figure for this occupation in the current edition, so everything below is hourly pay excluding overtime. We'd rather show the figure ONS does publish than multiply it into a yearly number nobody measured.
Median salary
£32.04
gross, per hour, all employees
▲ 2.3% change on the previous year
Mean
—
Jobs measured
8,000
The full pay range
Each bar is the salary at that percentile — the 25th means a quarter of dentists earn less than this.
Where this figure comes from
- ONS occupation group
- Dental practitioners
- SOC 2020 code
- 2253
- Measure
- Gross hourly pay excluding overtime, all employees
- Edition
- ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025 provisional
ONS publishes a sampling error of 16.0% for this figure and asks that anything above 10% is treated as imprecise — too few people in this region answered the survey for this occupation. The figure is shown because it is the one ONS published, but it is not firm enough to rank this region against anywhere else, so this page doesn't.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are estimates from a survey of PAYE jobs and are not financial advice.
Dentist salary FAQs
What is the average Dentist salary in the UK?
The median is £32.04 an hour and the mean is —, according to the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. Those cover all employees; ASHE publishes no full-time split at regional level.
Has dentist pay gone up in the last year?
ASHE puts the year-on-year change in the median at +2.3% for this occupation in the UK. That compares the latest survey with the one before it and is not adjusted for inflation.
How many dentists are there in the UK?
ASHE counts around 8,000 employee jobs in “Dental practitioners” (SOC 2253) in the UK. Self-employed work is not included.
Is this figure official?
Yes. It comes from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, an accredited official statistic based on employer PAYE records.
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