Los Angeles County / Health Services - Community Programs / Licensed Vocational Nurse I
Job-title file
Provide direct patient care — assess conditions, administer treatment and medication, and coordinate with physicians.
1 employees hold this title in Health Services - Community Programs. Median total compensation for the role is $70,441, below the department median of $171,743.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses — about 33,590 people — is $79,310. Health Services - Community Programs pays a median base salary of $41,906 for this role, 47% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational 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 Health Services - Community Programs’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses — about 648,410 people — is $64,400. Health Services - Community Programs’s median base salary is 35% below that national figure, below the 10th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
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.
Median total compensation for this role at Health Services - Community Programs is $70,441, 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
Licensed Vocational Nurse I is held in 8 Los Angeles County departments. In Health Services - Community Programs, the median of $70,441 ranks #8 of 8.
Median total compensation for the Licensed Vocational Nurse I role in other Los Angeles Countydepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 5 jurisdictions. In Los Angeles County, the median of $111,151 ranks #2 of 5. See Licensed Vocational Nurse across all of Los Angeles County →
Median total compensation for comparable Licensed Vocational Nurseroles 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
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Licensed Vocational Nurse I/Health Services - Community Programs
Sandra Quezada works as a Licensed Vocational Nurse I for Health Services - Community Programs. Sandra earned $70,441 in 2025.