Los Angeles County / Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services / Dental Assistant

Job-title file

Dental Assistant

Diagnose and treat patients, direct clinical care, and supervise other medical staff.

11 employees hold this title in Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services. Median total compensation for the role is $85,924, below the department median of $167,418.

Employees: 11
Total payroll: $704.4K
Role median: $85,924
Agency median: $167,418
Comparison: Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$1$105,628+

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

How total compensation varies among the 11 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

Dental Assistant 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 Dental Assistants — about 21,090 people — is $46,900. Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services pays a median base salary of $52,401 for this role, 12% above that figure — about the 78th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$38,050

$45,190

$46,900

$50,600

$58,900

Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services median · $52,401

The bar is the range of annual wages for Dental Assistants 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 - Integrated Correctional Health Services’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Dental Assistants — about 387,790 people — is $48,070. Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services’s median base salary is 9% above that national figure, about the 61st percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$37,130

$44,340

$48,070

$58,090

$62,250

Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services median · $52,401

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 11 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 Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services is $85,924, 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

Dental Assistant is held in 6 Los Angeles County departments. In Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services, the median of $85,924 ranks #6 of 6.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Harbor-Ucla Medical Center

$102,230 · 1

Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center

$100,204 · 6

Los Angeles General Medical Center

$99,332 · 8

Juvenile Court Health Services

$98,689 · 4

Ambulatory Care Network

$95,852 · 11

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

Compare jurisdictions

Dental Assistant beyond Los Angeles County

This role is reported in 12 jurisdictions. In Los Angeles County, the median of $97,088 ranks #1 of 12. See Dental Assistant across all of Los Angeles County →

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

California

$64,736 · 30

Illinois

$64,500 · 11

City of Cincinnati

$59,185 · 45

U.S. Federal Government (non-Defense)

$55,883 · 2,308

$51,118 · 43

$44,393 · 16

$43,798 · 24

$39,350 · 102

Median total compensation for comparable Dental Assistantroles 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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