Physician Assistant

Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Physician Assistants — about 3,890 people — is $161,890. Harbor-Ucla Medical Center pays a median base salary of $194,918 for this role, 20% above that figure — about the 69th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 6 of 7 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 Harbor-Ucla Medical Center is $318,184, 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.

Physician Assistant is held in 6 Los Angeles County departments. In Harbor-Ucla Medical Center, the median of $318,184 ranks #1 of 6.

This role is reported in 10 jurisdictions. In Los Angeles County, the median of $312,713 ranks #1 of 10. See Physician Assistant across all of Los Angeles County →