Hiring/Rhode Island/Dental Assistants

Dental Assistants hiring difficulty in Providence, RI

The public market difficulty score for Dental Assistants in Providence, RI is 6.7 out of 10, in the elevated band. National hiring demand for the occupation is weighed against local pay and local supply. BLS projects 53.0 thousand openings a year for this occupation on a 388.6 thousand employment base in 2025, or 13.6 percent, and employment growth of 7.4 percent from 2025 to 2035. Those two national figures are the same in every metro for this occupation. This metro has fewer of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 0.92 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 2.305 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. Rhode Island has 14 designated Dental Health shortage-area IDs, 1.3 per 100,000 civilian residents (HRSA, September 30, 2026). That state figure is used because this occupation practices in dental health. The metro median of $49,460 a year is within 3 percent of both the Rhode Island median of $50,150 and the U.S. median of $48,070 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). In Rhode Island, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 4.1%, near the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 33.5 days, shorter than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). OEWS counts 1,650 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Providence. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. On healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations, Providence sits at rank 38 in this set of 80 metros.