LMT's Exclusive Wage Survey Reports

While the labor shortage has plagued our industry for years, a comparison of LMT’s 2022 and 2024 Wage Surveys shows an encouraging shift in lab owners’ satisfaction with their current staffing levels.

LMT's exclusive 2022 Wage Survey Report reveals the state of wages and benefits packages in our community and examines four key findings.

Similar to our findings over the last decade, LMT’s 2018 Wage Survey shows that technician wages are still not seeing any significant growth. Overall hourly earnings are flat compared to our 2016 Wage Survey and 52% of our survey participants took steps to tighten labor costs in the last two years,...

“Recruiting is like making sausage—it’s ugly,” says Jason De Franco, Owner, Team Solutions Dental Lab, Sanford, FL. DeFranco would know; he’s tried every hiring strategy in the book, from a single “gut check” interview to an exhaustive, five-session process....

Just as consumers are seeking less expensive options for healthcare, some 5,000 doctors across the U.S. are ditching traditional health insurance-based practices and adopting the model of Primary Care Membership. Also commonly called Direct Patient Care, a no-insurance practice allows doctors to eliminate...

When hiring new staff members, Killian Dental Ceramics in Irvine, CA, uses an online tool to help screen its technical and administrative candidates. With each ad it runs on Indeed.com, the lab includes a link to online pre-employment tests administered and analyzed by Criteria Corp.

Applicants are asked...

Utah Valley Dental Laboratory, Provo, UT, follows a fairly standard hiring process: once it receives responses to a job posting, it does short phone interviews to assess the candidates. “If we like them, we give them an overview of the job and set up a date and time for an interview,” says...

LMT’s survey offers some optimistic news, but many respondents are still uneasy about the state of the market which, in turn, is affecting their personnel decisions.

Nearly three quarters of respondents to LMT’s exclusive 2014 Wage Survey have taken cost-cutting measures related to personnel in the last two years, citing unpredictable workflows, pricing pressure from dentists and other low-cost labs, and an increase in business costs.

Uncertainty prevails among the respondents to LMT’s 2012 Wage Survey and they’re being cautious about rehiring or raising wages. On a positive note, more than half saw an uptick in

Dental technicians' wages have increased only 3% overall during the last two years, according to a comparison of LMT's 2008 and 2006 Wage Surveys. Here's what the data tells us:

Wages are up 8% since our 2004 survey and there are increases across all experience levels, positions and specialties.

In response to the economic situation, more than three-quarters of respondents to LMT’s 2010 Wage Survey have implemented cost-cutting strategies that impact their personnel.