Instead, share a wide range and tell them you will need more information about the position (so you aren’t pinned down until you know if the job is yours to accept or reject). To be fair, there a wide variety of factors that go in to deciding to accept a job and salary is only one of them. You need more information about the entire compensation package, office culture and how everything fits within your own needs before you can decide what salary is acceptable for that job.
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your statistics are either fabrication or the results of interviewing only employers. As a working dental hygienist and a member of an organization representing 15,000 hygienist nationwide, I can assure you this is far from the truth. In addition, the profession of dental hygiene has experienced an overwhelming saturation of new graduates who are spending 12-18 months attempting to find full time employment with no success. Only Dentist employers have benefited by this recent glut of RDHs. They can offer lower wages and no benefits, undercutting applicants.