Los Angeles County / Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services / Epidemiologist
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
1 employee holds this title in Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services. Median total compensation for the role is $204,005, above the department median of $167,418.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Epidemiologists — about 380 people — is $105,400. Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services pays a median base salary of $124,915 for this role, 19% above that figure — about the 67th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Epidemiologists 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 Epidemiologists — about 12,090 people — is $87,220. Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services’s median base salary is 43% above that national figure, about the 82nd 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 - Integrated Correctional Health Services is $204,005, 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
Epidemiologist is held in 4 Los Angeles County departments. In Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services, the median of $204,005 ranks #2 of 4.
Median total compensation for the Epidemiologist 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 21 jurisdictions. In Los Angeles County, the median of $192,143 ranks #1 of 21. See Epidemiologist across all of Los Angeles County →
Median total compensation for comparable Epidemiologist 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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Epidemiologist/Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services
Zahra Mobasher works as a Epidemiologist for Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services. Zahra earned $204,005 in 2025.