Treatment Coordinator Salary in 2026: What the Data Actually Shows
25th percentile
$43,840
Median (50th)
$47,990
75th percentile
$58,120
90th percentile
$61,940
No official or survey source isolates treatment coordinators: BLS has no such occupation and DentalPost's 2023–2025 salary reports did not survey the role. The headline series is the nearest measured one — Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants (SOC 43-6013) as paid inside Offices of Dentists (NAICS 621200), BLS OEWS May 2025, 120,490 jobs, national only — bracketed by DentalPost's 2025 figures for front-office associates and practice managers (its 2026 report pools every front-office role at a $61,000 median, n=365). Source of record: docs/salary-surveys-2025-2026.md and docs/oews-2025-industry-621200.md.
Treatment Coordinator Compensation Structure
Compensation for treatment coordinatorsvaries significantly by employment type. Here's how the most common structures break down:
Nearest BLS series: medical secretaries in dental offices
SOC 43-6013 measured inside Offices of Dentists, May 2025 — about $23.07 an hour; mean $49,780; 10th percentile $37,050, 90th $61,940. The front-office occupation whose duties (scheduling, records, insurance paperwork, patient communication) overlap most with treatment coordination.
$47,990 / yr
Floor: DentalPost front-office associates
2025 Dental Industry Salary Report, 53 full-time respondents, 2024 income (mean $46,616; hourly median $25.00). A treatment coordinator hired from the front desk starts from here.
$45,000 / yr median
Ceiling: DentalPost dental practice managers
Same report, 263 full-time respondents (mean $71,292). Treatment coordinators who run scheduling and case presentation for a whole practice are paid toward this tier; BLS's supervisor series in dental offices is $63,910.
$67,000 / yr median
What no source measures
Case-acceptance bonuses are common in this role and are not captured by BLS wage data or published by DentalPost — see the bonus-pay guide for how they are typically structured.
bonus and commission
What Affects Treatment Coordinator Salary?
This is the one dental front-office job that no statistic isolates. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has no occupation code for treatment coordinators — a practice reports the person as a medical secretary, a receptionist, or an office supervisor — and DentalPost's annual Dental Industry Salary Report, the largest survey of dental staff, has not surveyed the role in its 2023, 2024 or 2025 editions. The "$57,500 treatment coordinator salary" that circulates on other sites is a modeled estimate derived from dental assistant wages, not a measurement, which is why it is not repeated here.
What can be measured is the bracket the role sits in. The headline figure above is BLS's May 2025 median for Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants inside dental offices ($47,990; middle half $43,840–$58,120), the occupation whose scheduling, records and insurance duties overlap most with treatment coordination. Below it sits DentalPost's median for front-office associates ($45,000, 2024 income); above it, the survey's median for dental practice managers ($67,000) and BLS's dental-office supervisor series ($63,910). A treatment coordinator's base pay lands inside that $45K–$67K span according to how much of the practice's scheduling and case presentation the role owns. DentalPost's 2026 edition, which pooled all front-office roles, put the group's 2025 median at $61,000 — a practice-manager-weighted figure that sits toward the top of the same bracket.
Base pay is only part of the picture. Treatment coordinators are frequently paid a bonus tied to case acceptance, which no wage statistic captures; how treatment coordinator bonus pay works covers the common structures, and case acceptance is the metric they are built on. All figures here are national — BLS publishes industry wages at the national level only.