Children's Social Worker III

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

3,278 employees hold this title in Children & Family Services. Median total compensation for the role is $173,653, above the department median of $150,462.

Employees: 3,278
Total payroll: $549.6M
Role median: $173,653
Agency median: $150,462
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$1$221,948+

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

How total compensation varies among the 3,278 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

Children's Social Worker III 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 Child, Family, and School Social Workers — about 26,220 people — is $71,250. Children & Family Services pays a median base salary of $101,945 for this role, 43% above that figure — about the 87th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Children & Family Services sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$44,230

$50,430

$71,250

$97,760

$103,050

Children & Family Services median · $101,945

The bar is the range of annual wages for Child, Family, and School Social Workers 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 Children & Family Services’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Child, Family, and School Social Workers — about 392,550 people — is $59,550. Children & Family Services’s median base salary is 71% above that national figure, above the 90th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$42,280

$48,270

$59,550

$76,070

$95,530

Children & Family Services median · $101,945

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 4,045 of 4,224 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in 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 Children & Family Services is $164,105, 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.

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