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Advanced Practice Management Fall 2010 Overhead Survey

Doctor, are you getting a raise this year? Understandably, your staff people want bigger pay checks every year. But if your expenses have been rising faster than your revenues, you are between a rock and a hard place.

Doctor, are you getting a raise this year?
Understandably, your staff people want bigger pay checks every year. But if your expenses have been rising faster than your revenues, you are between a rock and a hard place.

Advanced Practice Management Fall 2010 Overhead Survey
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Dental Practitioners — High and Low Ranges and Averages for years ending by March 31, 2010
	Range
	High	Low	Average	%

Fees Received	2,460,171	203,658	763,444	100.0%

Salaries - general	136,433	14,400	55,515	7.3%
Salaries - assistants	206,952	0	60,996	8.0%
Salaries - hygienists	263,620	0	87,564	11.5%
Payroll taxes - staff	53,225	2,452	16,641	2.2%
Staff retirement plans	23,205	0	7,494	1.0%
Employee benefit plans	33,279	0	6,917	0.9%
Staff meetings and parties	7,304	0	1,616	0.2%
Professional supplies	182,813	7,545	51,739	6.8%
Laboratory fees	179,461	8,901	57,941	7.6%
Occupancy expense	114,931	11,147	41,879	5.5%
Repairs, decorate and service contracts	21,388	0	5,277	0.7%
Depreciation, amortization and leased equipment	134,013	0	25,642	3.3%
Interest paid	42,938	0	6,739	0.9%
Insurance - business	15,771	832	4,844	0.6%
Telephone	14,261	870	3,774	0.5%
Office supplies	27,654	1,643	11,153	1.4%
Promotion and advertising	73,479	408	12,080	1.6%
Meetings and seminars	18,276	0	3,520	0.4%
Professional , banking and other fees	33,521	3,681	14,312	1.9%
Dues, licenses and subscriptions	7,897	278	2,847	0.4%
Auto and employee travel	11,495	0	1,882	0.2%
Laundry and uniforms	5,239	0	1,300	0.2%
Covenants, contracts and agreements	59,515	0	6,470	0.8%

Total Expenses Disbursed	1,337,734	108,045	488,142	63.9%

Net Income on an Income Tax Basis	1,122,437	95,613	275,302	36.1%

Please read the explanatory notes in the cover letter regarding possible adjustments to the above figures.
Prepared By: KDV

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