Compare a daily guarantee with percentage-based production pay, track adjusted production by day, and estimate your compensation for the pay period.
Use the compensation terms written in your contract or offer. This calculator can compare the guarantee either day by day or across the entire pay period.
An associate offer can quote a percentage without answering the most important question: a percentage of what? Production and collections can produce different compensation, and contracts may handle adjustments, write-offs, refunds, lab fees, remakes, and guarantee reconciliation differently.
Use the same basis and deductions that appear in your written agreement. If the wording is unclear, ask for a worked example before signing.
A daily guarantee can be compared with percentage pay one day at a time, or an agreement may reconcile compensation across a longer period. Those methods can produce different pay from the same production numbers, so this calculator lets you choose the method instead of assuming one.
If you are deciding whether associate income can support future ownership, compare your numbers with the buy a dental practice or home first calculator .
Practice owners can also use the dental practice revenue calculator to model patient volume and production capacity.
It is the adjusted daily production or collections needed for percentage pay to equal the daily guarantee, before any contract-specific deductions not modeled here.
With a daily comparison, a strong production day does not erase the guarantee paid on a weaker day. With a full-period comparison, the total percentage amount is compared with the total guarantee for worked days.
No. It estimates compensation from the inputs and method you select. Your written agreement, payroll records, applicable employment law, and employer calculations control the actual amount owed.
No. Results are gross compensation estimates before payroll taxes, income taxes, benefits, retirement contributions, bonuses, reimbursements, or other deductions.
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