General Dentist
Listed compensation
$208k-$312k
The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
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Job Description
WANTED General Dentist for Busy Offices in Palmdale and Lancaster Area.
Highly organized busy group practice is seeking a qualified dentist with a minimum of 2 years experience for full or part time. base pay guaranteed plus bonus% on production excellent job security with high earning potential highly trained staff, efficient and helpful
Highlights
- Very good job security and growth opportunities
- High Volume Practice (Excellent Patient Pool)
- Friendly and efficient working environment
- High Earning Potentials
- Generous bonuses
- Highly organized and trained supportive staff
- Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
- Salary: $800.00 to $1,200.00 /day based on experience plus production percentage bonus
- Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
- Job Type: Full-time
- Pay: $800.00 - $1,200.00 per day
Schedule: 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Supplemental Pay Types
- Bonus opportunities
- Work Location: Multiple locations
Qualifications
- DDS/DMD from an accredited University and active State Dental Board license
- A strong sense of ethics and the ability to act with integrity
- A willingness to be coached and trained by clinicians to meet production goals
- A hunger to achieve financial success and independence
- Additional Information
- Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
- Job Type: Full-time
- Pay: $800.00 - $1,200.00 per day
Schedule: 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Supplemental Pay Types
- Bonus opportunities
- Work Location: Multiple locations
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Key Responsibilities
Provide high-quality dental care to patients in a busy group practice setting. Collaborate with a trained support staff to meet production goals and maintain efficient office operations.
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
General Dentistry Career Context
Of the 46 active Dentist listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 46% have no call, 67% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$260k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $235k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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- On-site
- Includes weekends
Living in Palmdale
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $457k
- Typical market rent
- $2,751/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 40 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 113.6
- State income tax
- Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.