Odd Lots · Friday, September 18, 2026
The study 'The Everywhere Millionaire' found that dentists are a significant source of pass-through income, with the total revenue generated by dental practices exceeding that of major professional sports leagues. Doctors' offices also ranked as the top four-digit industry for pass-through profits, highlighting the financial success within these medical fields.
“Dentists have some amazing stats. I think they're number 21 on our list of top pass-through four-digit industries by profit. And if you add up all the revenue of dentists in America, it exceeds the revenue generated by the NFL, the NBA, MLB, basically all professional sports, and dentists are earning more.”
“And then they also are in every congressional district. And so when you think about things like, oh, let's include dental services and Medicare, for example, they lobby against that to be like, well, we don't want price pressure from the government. We want to make sure So there is a bit of regulatory might, and that's really the case more for doctors, too.”
“Doctors' offices was number one. So this is like their industry codes by the BEA. And so four-digit, there are about 300 industries in the four-digit system. So that's like a pretty... We're fine. Like doctor's office is different from dentist's office is different from like a physical therapy type industry. As an example, within services, doctors were number one in terms of the number of amount of profits.”