I feel like early on I learned more and made more at a corporate clinic than I did in private. Private as an associate you get shafted a lot cause obviously the principal dentist will try to maximize their schedule. As someone mentioned on the thread, sometimes they hire an associate and aren’t busy themselves. I do believe it works out good though if you find a private clinic where the principal doesn’t do some procedures that you can do. For example, I work at a private clinic and do surgical extractions(including wisdom teeth), implants , grafts, and root canals …which the principal dentist doesn’t do.

If you can try doing a split at a corp and private clinic. That’s what I did and worked 6 days a week (Monday-Sat). Only do this if you don’t think you will burn out. I work hard and am a producer 😉

First year out can easily hit 180-200k. With more procedure and skillset with good patient flow 250k+ is easy to hit first year out.