Los Angeles County / Harbor-Ucla Medical Center / Registered Nurse I

Job-title file

Registered Nurse I

Provide direct patient care — assess conditions, administer treatment and medication, and coordinate with physicians.

627 employees hold this title in Harbor-Ucla Medical Center. Median total compensation for the role is $160,976, above the department median of $127,811.

Employees: 627
Total payroll: $91.9M
Role median: $160,976
Agency median: $127,811
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$1$258,761+

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

How total compensation varies among the 627 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

Registered Nurse I 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 Registered Nurses — about 109,360 people — is $135,560. Harbor-Ucla Medical Center pays a median base salary of $108,090 for this role, 20% below that figure — about the 20th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

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

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$100,980

$112,070

$135,560

$167,800

$174,200

Harbor-Ucla Medical Center median · $108,090

The bar is the range of annual wages for Registered Nurses 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 Registered Nurses — about 3,379,720 people — is $97,550. Harbor-Ucla Medical Center’s median base salary is 11% above that national figure, about the 68th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$68,940

$80,330

$97,550

$112,350

$137,470

Harbor-Ucla Medical Center median · $108,090

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 1,022 of 1,069 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 $181,599, 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

Registered Nurse I is held in 11 Los Angeles County departments. In Harbor-Ucla Medical Center, the median of $160,976 ranks #8 of 11.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Public Social Services Department

$200,872 · 5

Mental Health

$187,760 · 1

Juvenile Court Health Services

$172,979 · 27

Olive View-Ucla Medical Center

$167,801 · 360

Public Health

$166,248 · 31

Los Angeles General Medical Center

$165,707 · 1,307

Ambulatory Care Network

$162,965 · 140

Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center

$160,035 · 178

Health Services

$159,778 · 18

Health Services - Community Programs

$104,823 · 10

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

Compare jurisdictions

Registered Nurse beyond Los Angeles County

This role is reported in 15 jurisdictions. In Los Angeles County, the median of $182,642 ranks #2 of 15. See Registered Nurse across all of Los Angeles County →

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

City and County of San Francisco

$256,713 · 1,911

$150,727 · 15

$122,503 · 2,781

$115,950 · 906

$92,515 · 737

$90,863 · 1,024

$75,245 · 437

$71,400 · 39

Median total compensation for comparable Registered Nurse roles 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.

Record list