Los Angeles County / Harbor-Ucla Medical Center / Respiratory Care Practitioner

Job-title file

Respiratory Care Practitioner

Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.

9 employees hold this title in Harbor-Ucla Medical Center. Median total compensation for the role is $134,282, above the department median of $127,811.

Employees: 9
Total payroll: $965.3K
Role median: $134,282
Agency median: $127,811
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$928$171,033+

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

How total compensation varies among the 9 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

Respiratory Care Practitioner 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 Respiratory Therapists — about 7,010 people — is $104,640. Harbor-Ucla Medical Center pays a median base salary of $86,372 for this role, 17% below that figure — about the 27th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

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

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$75,000

$85,130

$104,640

$117,520

$130,790

Harbor-Ucla Medical Center median · $86,372

The bar is the range of annual wages for Respiratory Therapists 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 Respiratory Therapists — about 139,790 people — is $82,280. Harbor-Ucla Medical Center’s median base salary is 5% above that national figure, about the 56th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$63,660

$74,520

$82,280

$98,730

$118,050

Harbor-Ucla Medical Center median · $86,372

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 7 of 9 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 $134,282, 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

Respiratory Care Practitioner is held in 5 Los Angeles County departments. In Harbor-Ucla Medical Center, the median of $134,282 ranks #5 of 5.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center

$166,785 · 9

Olive View-Ucla Medical Center

$158,877 · 2

Ambulatory Care Network

$153,911 · 2

Los Angeles General Medical Center

$139,966 · 1

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

Compare jurisdictions

Respiratory Care Practitioner beyond Los Angeles County

This role is reported in 2 jurisdictions. In Los Angeles County, the median of $156,671 ranks #1 of 2. See Respiratory Care Practitioner across all of Los Angeles County →

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

New York Public Authorities

$62,038 · 113

Median total compensation for comparable Respiratory Care Practitioner 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.

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