Epidemiologist

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 pays a median base salary of $129,215 for this role, 23% above that figure — about the 71st percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Median total compensation for this role at Health Services is $211,788, 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.

Epidemiologist is held in 4 Los Angeles County departments. In Health Services, the median of $211,788 ranks #1 of 4.

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 →

• Account Clerk II 11
• Accountant I 14
• Accountant II 47
• Accounting Technician I 11
• Accounting Technician II 15
• Administrative Services Manager I 52
• Administrative Services Manager II 30
• Administrative Services Manager III 20
• Ambulance Dispatcher 14
• Ambulance Driver 18
• Ambulance Medical Technician 26
• Assistant Nursing Director, Administration 23
• Assistant Staff Analyst, H.S. 53
• Clinical Pharmacist 14
• Contract Program Auditor 22
• Custodian 17
• Departmental Civil Service Representative 20
• Departmental Personnel Assistant 14
• Emergency Patient Transfer Coord(Non-Megaflex) 10
• Financial Specialist III 19
• Fiscal Officer I 19
• Fiscal Officer II, Health Services 12
• Health Care Financial Analyst 32
• Information Systems Analyst II 12
• Information Technology Manager I 11
• Information Technology Specialist I 22
• Intermediate Clerk 44
• Intermediate Typist-Clerk 51
• IT Technical Support Analyst I 11
• IT Technical Support Analyst II 16
• Management Analyst 63
• Management Assistant 15
• Medical Case Worker II 12
• Nurse Manager 16
• Nurse Practitioner 23
• Nursing Instructor 17
• Patient Relations Representative 21
• Patient Resources Worker 40
• Payroll Clerk II 32
• Principal Accounting System Technician 38
• Principal Application Developer 13
• Principal Departmental Personnel Assistant 18
• Principal Information Systems Analyst 32
• Procurement Aid 15
• Procurement Assistant I 27
• Procurement Assistant II 11
• Registered Nurse I 18
• Registered Nurse II 29
• Registered Nurse III 10
• Senior Accounting Systems Technician 25
• Senior Application Developer 20
• Senior Clerk 28
• Senior Departmental Personnel Assistant 46
• Senior Information Systems Analyst 102
• Senior Network Systems Administrator 10
• Senior Nursing Instructor 33
• Senior Staff Analyst, Health 47
• Senior Typist-Clerk 71
• Staff Analyst, Health 123
• Staff Assistant I 16