Which pays more, Dental Hygienist or Physical Therapist?

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 Physical Therapist

Dental Hygienist pays more: a median of $105,500 against $96,500. There is 1.4× more demand for Physical Therapist. Listings for Dental Hygienist move faster — median age 40 days against 70.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Dental Hygienist	Physical Therapist	Gap
Open postings	28,286	40,356	-12,070
Posted this week	756	3,573
Median salary	$105,500	$96,500	+$9k
25th percentile	$83.5k	$76k
75th percentile	$131k	$120k
Salary disclosed	7.7%	8.5%
Remote share	13.9%	13.0%	+0.9pp
Median age of posting	40d	70d
Open over 60 days	30.7%	44.7%
Visa sponsorship	12.8%	23.7%

Pay

Pay distribution

Dental Hygienist

$47k$183k

Physical Therapist

$43k$167k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Dental Hygienist

just posted40d median90d+

Physical Therapist

just posted70d 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%

Physical Therapist — technologies

Spark

72.0%

Kotlin

65.8%

Terraform

59.6%

Snowflake

53.4%

Java

47.2%

dbt

41.0%

Kubernetes

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%

Physical Therapist — employers

Halcyon Energy

9.4%

Lakeshore Hospitality

8.7%

Meridian Software

8.0%

Vantage Logistics

7.2%

Brightline Retail

6.5%

Solstice Biotech

5.8%

Northwind Systems

5.1%

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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%.