Los Angeles County / Aging and Disabilities / Social Worker

Job-title file

Social Worker

Assess client needs, develop service plans, and connect people with support resources.

131 employees hold this title in Aging and Disabilities. Median total compensation for the role is $143,991, above the department median of $141,772.

Employees: 131
Total payroll: $17.6M
Role median: $143,991
Agency median: $141,772
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$4,261$164,448+

Hover a bar for its range; click to filter the list below.

How total compensation varies among the 131 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.

Compared with the local labor market

Social Worker pay vs. the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area

Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Social Workers, All Other — about 1,410 people — is $68,630. Aging and Disabilities pays a median base salary of $84,739 for this role, 23% above that figure — about the 61st percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Aging and Disabilities sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$36,120

$54,070

$68,630

$104,210

$128,690

Aging and Disabilities median · $84,739

The bar is the range of annual wages for Social Workers, All Other across every employer in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Aging and Disabilities’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Social Workers, All Other — about 62,930 people — is $71,900. Aging and Disabilities’s median base salary is 18% above that national figure, about the 63rd percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$43,620

$51,900

$71,900

$97,040

$115,610

Aging and Disabilities median · $84,739

Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA range relative to the national one.

Computed over the 126 of 131 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.

Median total compensation for this role at Aging and Disabilities is $143,991, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Compare departments

This role across Los Angeles County

Social Worker is held in 2 Los Angeles County departments. In Aging and Disabilities, the median of $143,991 ranks #1 of 2.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Public Social Services Department

$143,638 · 640

Median total compensation for the Social Worker role in other Los Angeles Countydepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

Compare jurisdictions

Social Worker beyond Los Angeles County

This role is reported in 23 jurisdictions. In Los Angeles County, the median of $143,711 ranks #1 of 23. See Social Worker across all of Los Angeles County →

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

City and County of San Francisco

$127,069 · 8

Seattle Public Schools

$120,916 · 57

City of Chicago

$118,836 · 6

District of Columbia

$109,924 · 504

Davis School District, Utah

$106,100 · 22

City of Los Angeles

$97,460 · 12

City of Boston

$89,384 · 9

Illinois

$84,300 · 220

Median total compensation for comparable Social Workerroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.

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