Dental Billing Coordinator Salary in 2026: What Billing Staff Earn
25th percentile
$48,270
Median (50th)
$51,910
75th percentile
$62,900
90th percentile
$70,270
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 — the industry table for Offices of Dentists (NAICS 621200).
BLS has no "dental billing coordinator" occupation; the headline series is Billing and Posting Clerks (SOC 43-3021) as paid inside dental offices, 15,240 jobs.
National only.
DentalPost's 2025 survey had 26 billing-specialist respondents and published no separate figure for them.
Source of record: docs/salary-surveys-2025-2026.md and docs/oews-2025-industry-621200.md.
Dental Billing & Insurance Coordinator Compensation Structure
Compensation for dental billing & insurance coordinators varies significantly by employment type.
Here's how the most common structures break down:
BLS median, billing clerks in dental offices
SOC 43-3021 measured inside Offices of Dentists, May 2025 — about $24.96 an hour.
Mean $55,310; 10th percentile $41,690, 90th $70,270.
$51,910 / yr
Versus the front desk
Billing and posting clerks in dental offices out-earn receptionists in the same offices ($46,500) and medical secretaries ($47,990) at every percentile BLS publishes — the insurance and accounts-receivable work is the pay premium.
+$5,410 at the median
Top of the range
The 75th and 90th percentiles.
Dental offices report a wider spread for this occupation than for reception, which is consistent with billing roles that range from posting payments to running the whole revenue cycle.
$62,900–$70,270
Survey cross-check
DentalPost's 2025 report drew only 26 billing specialists and pooled them with front-office associates (median $45,000) rather than publish a figure — so the BLS series stands alone here.
none published
What Affects Dental Billing & Insurance Coordinator Salary?
BLS does not track "dental billing coordinators" by name, but it does publish what each occupation earns inside dental offices, and Billing and Posting Clerks (SOC 43-3021) is the occupation that job maps to: a median of $51,910 in Offices of Dentists as of May 2025, with the middle half of earners between $48,270 and $62,900.
That is roughly $5,400 above what the same offices pay receptionists, which is the clearest official evidence that insurance verification, claims and accounts-receivable work carry a premium over a front-desk-only role.
The figure is national.
BLS estimates industry wages only at the national level, so there is no state-by-state breakdown for billing in dental offices; the closest state-level context is the general front-desk series, which shares the same limitation.
No industry survey publishes a billing-specific number either: DentalPost's 2025 Dental Industry Salary Report drew 26 billing specialists and folded them into its front-office results.
What moves a billing coordinator up the range is scope and specialization — owning the full revenue cycle rather than posting payments, fluency with CDT codes, and the accounts-receivable discipline that keeps a practice's collections current.
The billing vs. front desk guide walks through how the two roles split in practice.
What Dental Billing & Insurance Coordinator Job Listings Show Right Now
From the 90 active dental billing & insurance coordinator listings on DentistryHires as of November 12, 2026.
Employers with the most openings
- Oral Surgery Partners2
- Smile Brands2
- Specialty1 Partners2
Where the openings are
Pay employers post
- Median $24 an hour; the middle half of posted pay runs $21.50–$26.50 (69 listings that state an hourly rate)
- 78% of dental billing & insurance coordinator listings state any pay at all.
Benefits listings name
- Paid time offnamed in 66%
- Dental or vision coveragenamed in 48%
- 401(k) plannamed in 46%
- Health insurancenamed in 39%
- Employee discounts or free dental carenamed in 37%
- Flexible schedulingnamed in 10%
- Training providednamed in 10%
Source: active dental billing & insurance coordinator listings on DentistryHires, updated daily. Pay figures use only listings that state pay (midpoint of each posted range) and are hidden when one employer posted most of them. Benefits count listings that name the benefit; a listing that doesn’t mention one may still offer it.
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