Registered Nurse II

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.

Computed over the 1,022 of 1,069 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 $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.

Registered Nurse II is held in 10 Los Angeles County departments. In Harbor-Ucla Medical Center, the median of $208,415 ranks #5 of 10.

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 →