Compare per day, not per month
You work different numbers of days at each office, so monthly totals are not comparable. Production per day is the starting point, then production per visit to see whether one office simply books you fuller.
Then follow it to pay
The same production pays very differently under two contracts. For each office, work out what a day actually turns into:
- The basis: a percentage of gross production, adjusted production or collections. See production vs collections.
- Lab: how much of your work carries lab at that office, and whether it comes out before or after your percentage.
- The daily guarantee: whether it is a floor or a draw, and how often you actually hit it. See guarantee vs draw.
- Collections timing: a heavy-PPO office pays later and less of full fee than a fee-for-service one.
The figure that settles it is your effective pay per day worked at each office, over at least three months.
The cases matter as much as the money
Look at what you do at each office, not just what it pays. One office may send you the surgical extractions and implant cases you want more of, while the other keeps you on restorative and hygiene exams. If you are building a skill, the office that gives you the cases can be worth more than the one that pays a point higher.
Count the things that do not show on a stub
Commute time, the assistant you get, how the schedule is built, how often patients no-show, and whether the office respects your treatment plans. None of these is in the numbers, but once the numbers are clear, these are what tip the decision.
Weighing a new offer
The fairest test of an offer is your own real production run through its terms. Take the last few months you actually worked and calculate what the new contract would have paid for them. That beats any projection built on what the office says you will produce.
How cuspd does it
In cuspd every day is tagged to a practice, and each practice has its own terms: basis, percentage or tiers, daily guarantee and lab split. Overview and Compensation work for one office or all of them, and Clinical development shows where you do each procedure. Enter an offer's terms as a practice to see what your real work would have paid under it. Try it in the demo.