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Dental Hygienists hiring difficulty in Baltimore, MD

Dental Hygienists in Baltimore, MD is in the hard band, at 7.0 out of 10. The score is demand pressure against the local workforce, not a rarity rank. BLS projects 15.0 thousand openings a year for this occupation on a 225.3 thousand employment base in 2025, or 6.7 percent, and employment growth of 8.0 percent from 2025 to 2035. Those two national figures are the same in every metro for this occupation. Metro median pay for this occupation is $116,130 a year, above the Maryland median of $107,830 and above the U.S. median of $98,100 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). In Maryland, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 4.4%, above the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 43.4 days, longer than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). Maryland has 31 designated Dental Health shortage-area IDs, 0.5 per 100,000 civilian residents (HRSA, September 30, 2026). That state figure is used because this occupation practices in dental health. This metro has about the same share of these workers as the national mix. The location quotient is 0.98 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 1.400 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. OEWS counts 1,900 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Baltimore. 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, Baltimore sits at rank 21 in this set of 80 metros.