Which pays more, Dental Hygienist or Medical Assistant?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Dental Hygienist vs Medical Assistant

Dental Hygienist pays more: a median of $105,500 against $65,000. Demand is comparable on both sides. Dental Hygienist is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 10.8%.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Dental Hygienist	Medical Assistant	Gap
Open postings	28,286	20,282	+8,004
Posted this week	756	830
Median salary	$105,500	$65,000	+$40.5k
25th percentile	$83.5k	$51.5k
75th percentile	$131k	$80.5k
Salary disclosed	7.7%	3.8%
Remote share	13.9%	3.1%	+10.8pp
Median age of posting	40d	44d
Open over 60 days	30.7%	32.1%
Visa sponsorship	12.8%	12.8%

Pay

Pay distribution

Dental Hygienist

$47k$183k

Medical Assistant

$29k$112k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Dental Hygienist

just posted40d median90d+

Medical Assistant

just posted44d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Dental Hygienist — technologies

72.0%

Python

65.8%

GCP

59.6%

Tableau

53.4%

Kotlin

47.2%

Node.js

41.0%

Airflow

34.8%

Medical Assistant — technologies

Kubernetes

72.0%

Node.js

65.8%

GCP

59.6%

dbt

53.4%

Tableau

47.2%

JavaScript

41.0%

Spark

34.8%

Dental Hygienist — employers

Northwind Systems

9.4%

Brightline Retail

8.7%

Fairmount Legal

8.0%

Beacon Robotics

7.2%

Vantage Logistics

6.5%

Aperture Labs

5.8%

Pinewood Education

5.1%

Medical Assistant — employers

Vantage Logistics

9.4%

Northwind Systems

8.7%

Solstice Biotech

8.0%

Quarry Analytics

7.2%

Pinewood Education

6.5%

Meridian Software

5.8%

Cobalt Financial

5.1%

More comparisons

Other Healthcare comparisons

Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.