Back home in Central Cali, I know a few hygienists making $45/hr. Of coarse the dentists keep them on part time (3 days/wk) to avoid paying benefits. Even so, even if they worked 6 days a week at 2 different offices, they'd barely make over 100,000. But US dollars were recently at a 27% premium to Canadian, so maybe Canadian dollars, this was possible. Or maybe they were paid in monopoly dollars.