Los Angeles County / Health Services / Pharmacy Technician

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Pharmacy Technician

Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.

10 employees hold this title in Health Services. Median total compensation for the role is $99,764, below the department median of $161,402.

Employees: 10
Total payroll: $909.1K
Role median: $99,764
Agency median: $161,402
Comparison: Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$25,373$121,532+

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

How total compensation varies among the 10 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

Pharmacy Technician 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 Pharmacy Technicians — about 13,130 people — is $50,760. Health Services pays a median base salary of $65,207 for this role, 28% above that figure — about the 77th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Health Services sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$39,820

$45,180

$50,760

$62,910

$78,850

Health Services median · $65,207

The bar is the range of annual wages for Pharmacy Technicians 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’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Pharmacy Technicians — about 471,680 people — is $45,750. Health Services’s median base salary is 43% above that national figure, above the 90th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$36,020

$37,850

$45,750

$49,990

$61,040

Health Services median · $65,207

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 9 of 10 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 is $99,764, 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

Pharmacy Technician is held in 11 Los Angeles County departments. In Health Services, the median of $99,764 ranks #9 of 11.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services

$124,763 · 53

Juvenile Court Health Services

$119,148 · 4

Public Health

$117,397 · 3

Los Angeles General Medical Center

$114,110 · 87

Olive View-Ucla Medical Center

$112,673 · 44

Ambulatory Care Network

$108,590 · 91

Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center

$107,219 · 18

Harbor-Ucla Medical Center

$105,796 · 52

Fire Department

$98,843 · 1

Mental Health

$73,048 · 6

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

Compare jurisdictions

Pharmacy Technician beyond Los Angeles County

This role is reported in 12 jurisdictions. In Los Angeles County, the median of $111,601 ranks #2 of 12. See Pharmacy Technician across all of Los Angeles County →

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

City and County of San Francisco

$166,768 · 104

U.S. Federal Government (non-Defense)

$63,317 · 6,333

$58,016 · 12

$54,538 · 27

$53,906 · 482

$48,552 · 88

$48,000 · 37

New York Public Authorities

$42,474 · 135

Median total compensation for comparable Pharmacy Technicianroles 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