Los Angeles County / Harbor-Ucla Medical Center / Certified Medical Assistant

Job-title file

Certified Medical Assistant

Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.

19 employees hold this title in Harbor-Ucla Medical Center. Median total compensation for the role is $106,362, below the department median of $127,811.

Employees: 19
Total payroll: $1.9M
Role median: $106,362
Agency median: $127,811
Comparison: Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$13,213$124,260+

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

How total compensation varies among the 19 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

Certified Medical Assistant 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 Medical Assistants — about 39,770 people — is $47,760. Harbor-Ucla Medical Center pays a median base salary of $60,747 for this role, 27% above that figure — about the 76th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Harbor-Ucla Medical Center sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$39,160

$45,830

$47,760

$59,610

$73,940

Harbor-Ucla Medical Center median · $60,747

The bar is the range of annual wages for Medical Assistants 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 Harbor-Ucla Medical Center’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Medical Assistants — about 817,870 people — is $45,690. Harbor-Ucla Medical Center’s median base salary is 33% above that national figure, above the 90th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$36,050

$38,470

$45,690

$49,180

$59,310

Harbor-Ucla Medical Center median · $60,747

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 16 of 19 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 Harbor-Ucla Medical Center is $106,362, 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

Certified Medical Assistant is held in 8 Los Angeles County departments. In Harbor-Ucla Medical Center, the median of $106,362 ranks #5 of 8.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services

$123,911 · 21

Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center

$109,897 · 18

Ambulatory Care Network

$108,815 · 274

Olive View-Ucla Medical Center

$107,349 · 27

Los Angeles General Medical Center

$101,245 · 55

Public Health

$85,837 · 2

Health Services

$22,615 · 3

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

Record list