Healthcare Practitioners

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons

SOC 29-1022

Perform complex surgeries of the jaw, face, and mouth.

The job

Median pay

$352k

$205k to $429k typical range

Outlook, 2025 to 2035

Growing fast

+5.6% projected

Openings a year

200

BLS projection

Typical education

Doctoral plus residency

Our model

AI displacement risk

Very low

How much of this job AI may do instead of the person

Works with AI

30/100

AI alongside the person rather than instead of them

AI exposure

23rd pct

More exposed than 23% of occupations · modeled estimate · 5th pct in Microsoft's data

Future-proof

82/100

At a glance

The $352,220 median for Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons runs more than double the typical occupation we cover, and more than double the Healthcare Practitioners median. Displacement risk is very low and works-with-AI scores 30/100, closer to help than to displacement; modeled exposure is at the 23rd percentile. Roughly 200 positions open up annually for Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons, counting growth and replacement, a smaller pool than most occupations here. Getting in usually takes a doctoral degree plus residency. Projected employment change for 2025 to 2035 is +5.6%, 1.9 points above typical growth across the occupations we cover. Modeled AI exposure for Anesthesiologists is 33 points higher.

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Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 50 states and DC. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
California	670	0.0	1.2×	$502k (estimated)
Texas	401 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$338k (estimated)
New York	350	0.0	1.1×	$343k
Florida	334 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$233k
Pennsylvania	219 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$554k
Virginia	210	0.1	1.6×	$403k
Ohio	205 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.2× (estimated)	$329k (estimated)
Illinois	189 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$70k
Georgia	180	0.0	1.2×	$129k
North Carolina	164 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$224k

All 50 states and DC

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
New Jersey	142 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$418k (estimated)
Alabama	130	0.1	1.9×	$274k (estimated)
Massachusetts	125 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$408k (estimated)
Arizona	105 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$323k
Missouri	104 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$323k (estimated)
Washington	96 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$443k (estimated)
Wisconsin	95 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$350k (estimated)
Maryland	86 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$401k (estimated)
Colorado	77 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$361k
Louisiana	74 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.2× (estimated)	$302k (estimated)
South Carolina	73 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$325k (estimated)
Indiana	70	0.0	0.7×	$329k (estimated)
Kentucky	70 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$320k (estimated)
Connecticut	59 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$406k (estimated)
Oklahoma	57 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$320k (estimated)
Oregon	54 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$480k (estimated)
Michigan	50	0.0	0.4×	$97k
Tennessee	50	0.0	0.5×	$320k (estimated)
Kansas	49 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$318k (estimated)
Arkansas	46 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$306k (estimated)
Iowa	46 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$316k (estimated)
Utah	44 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$335k (estimated)
Mississippi	43 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.2× (estimated)	$271k (estimated)
Alaska	40	0.1	3.9×	$430k (estimated)
Minnesota	40	0.0	0.4×	$475k
South Dakota	40	0.1	2.8×	$316k (estimated)
Nevada	38 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$390k (estimated)
Nebraska	34 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$334k (estimated)
West Virginia	32 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.4× (estimated)	$312k (estimated)
Idaho	26 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$343k (estimated)
New Mexico	26 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$352k (estimated)
Maine	23 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$354k (estimated)
New Hampshire	23 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$392k (estimated)
Delaware	18 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.2× (estimated)	$396k (estimated)
Hawaii	18 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$432k (estimated)
Rhode Island	17 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$414k
Montana	16 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$334k (estimated)
Washington DC	15 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	0.7× (estimated)	$409k (estimated)
North Dakota	15 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$325k (estimated)
Vermont	11 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$356k (estimated)
Wyoming	7 (estimated)	0.0 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$338k (estimated)

Top metro areas

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ240 jobs · $343k median

Where this ranks

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.