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Hi Everyone,
It's been forever since my last post, think I was a pre-dent. Anyways, I'm graduating from LLU this year and have been interviewing for jobs on the east coast. The dentist I interviewed with offered $500/day guaranteed or 30%, whichever is highest. I counter offered him with the following:
1) 33% of production (told him avg is 32-35% according to ets)
2) $550 per day guarantee-my fiance is leaving her teaching job and will lose her health insurance and benefits, and the owner informed me that he gives all of his employees $400 per month "med bonus" to buy their own health insurance, so I didn't think my offer was too out of left field.
3) I will pay 33% of my own production lab bill
These are the basics of the contract I offered. The owner informed me that his hygienist makes 90k+ per year, and offered me ~ 108k. I actually was taken back that he would tell me this and then lowball me so quickly, knowing we have such a high debt load coming out of school. I think he would be a great guy to work for, his practice runs very efficiently. The area is very rural, so my fiance will be hard pressed to find a teaching job (one of the only neg things about this job), which is why I sort of incorporated the cost of health insurance into the job. Just wondering if my offer is unfair to him, he told me that he only makes ~180k per year, which I'm not sure to believe or not. He just built a new practice with 5 ops and the ability to expand into 7 ops, as well as expand the lower level into 3-4 additional ops. He is the only dentist in his entire county, has a current patient base of ~5900 pts. Also, two other dentists (the only two) in the next county are set to retire in the next three to five years. I was thinking of possibly buying those two out when they do indeed decide to step down.
It's been forever since my last post, think I was a pre-dent. Anyways, I'm graduating from LLU this year and have been interviewing for jobs on the east coast. The dentist I interviewed with offered $500/day guaranteed or 30%, whichever is highest. I counter offered him with the following:
1) 33% of production (told him avg is 32-35% according to ets)
2) $550 per day guarantee-my fiance is leaving her teaching job and will lose her health insurance and benefits, and the owner informed me that he gives all of his employees $400 per month "med bonus" to buy their own health insurance, so I didn't think my offer was too out of left field.
3) I will pay 33% of my own production lab bill
These are the basics of the contract I offered. The owner informed me that his hygienist makes 90k+ per year, and offered me ~ 108k. I actually was taken back that he would tell me this and then lowball me so quickly, knowing we have such a high debt load coming out of school. I think he would be a great guy to work for, his practice runs very efficiently. The area is very rural, so my fiance will be hard pressed to find a teaching job (one of the only neg things about this job), which is why I sort of incorporated the cost of health insurance into the job. Just wondering if my offer is unfair to him, he told me that he only makes ~180k per year, which I'm not sure to believe or not. He just built a new practice with 5 ops and the ability to expand into 7 ops, as well as expand the lower level into 3-4 additional ops. He is the only dentist in his entire county, has a current patient base of ~5900 pts. Also, two other dentists (the only two) in the next county are set to retire in the next three to five years. I was thinking of possibly buying those two out when they do indeed decide to step down.
