Stop Guessing What You Can Afford to Pay Your Hygiene Team
Use the math behind compensation, production, and retention to build a pay structure that works for your hygienists and your practice.
Your hygiene team is one of the biggest investments in your practice. But simply raising hourly rates isn’t always the answer.
The Hygiene Compensation Guide, including two ready-to-use calculators, gives you the tools to structure compensation around performance, understand what your hygienists are actually costing your practice, and compare that investment against the very real cost of losing a team member.
Build a Compensation Model That Rewards the Right Things
A strong compensation structure gives your hygienists an opportunity to earn more while protecting the profitability of the practice.
Inside the guide, you’ll learn how to:
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Set a competitive base hourly rate with room for performance-based earnings
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Calculate the production threshold each hygienist needs to reach
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Structure commission on production above that threshold
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Determine each hygienist’s true effective hourly rate
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Compare compensation against local temp rates
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Understand the real financial impact of losing and replacing a hygienist
Plus, Get Two Ready-to-Use Calculators
Hygiene Compensation Calculator
Plug in each hygienist’s pay, hours, production, and local temp rate to see their production threshold, commission, total compensation, and effective hourly rate.
Hygiene Replacement Cost Calculator
Calculate what losing a hygienist could actually cost your practice, from lost production and recruiting to ramp-up time and patient attrition.
See What Your Hygiene Team Is Really Costing You
Compensation decisions are easier when you can see the full picture.
Use the calculators to understand what each hygienist is earning relative to their production and what turnover could actually cost your practice. Together, they give you the numbers to make more informed decisions about pay, benefits, performance, and retention.
Part 4 of the Hygiene Crisis Series
Compensation can be part of the solution, but only when the structure makes sense for both the hygienist and the practice.
In Part 4 of the Hygiene Crisis series, Gary Bird and Dr. Blake Hamblin break down the compensation framework behind this guide and the retention strategies practices can use to build a stronger, more sustainable hygiene team.
Want to watch the full Hygiene Crisis series?
Ready to Run the Numbers for Your Practice?
Get the Hygiene Compensation Guide + two calculators and start building a compensation and retention strategy that works for your team and your practice.
