Metro Nashville / Hea Oral Health Services / Dentist
Job-title file
Diagnose and treat patients, direct clinical care, and supervise other medical staff.
2 employees hold this title in Hea Oral Health Services. Median total compensation for the role is $76,436, above the department median of $64,641.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area, the median wage for Dentists, General — about 1,170 people — is $215,290. Hea Oral Health Services pays a median base salary of $76,381 for this role, 65% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Dentists, General across every employer in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Hea Oral Health Services’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Dentists, General — about 124,390 people — is $170,950. Hea Oral Health Services’s median base salary is 55% below that national figure, below the 10th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Hea Oral Health Services is $76,436, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
Dentist is held in 2 Metro Nashville departments. In Hea Oral Health Services, the median of $76,436 ranks #2 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Dentist role in other Metro Nashvilledepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 11 jurisdictions. See Dentist across all of Metro Nashville →
Median total compensation for comparable Dentistroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Dentist/Hea Oral Health Services
Source-specific fields
Deranae Davis Dudley is a Dentist at Hea Oral Health Services. 2025 total compensation came to $110,820.
Dentist/Hea Oral Health Services
Source-specific fields
At Hea Oral Health Services, Kimberly Smith serves as a Dentist. Their 2018 pay totaled $42,052.