Principal Personnel Assistant

Lead staff and operations — set priorities, allocate resources, and oversee program delivery.

9 employees hold this title in Human Resources Department. Median total compensation for the role is $155,248, below the department median of $203,393.

Employees: 9
Total payroll: $1.3M
Role median: $155,248
Agency median: $203,393
Comparison: Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$56,655$193,381+

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

How total compensation varies among the 9 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

Principal Personnel 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 Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks — about 6,600 people — is $65,040. Human Resources Department pays a median base salary of $92,524 for this role, 42% above that figure — above the 90th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Human Resources Department sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$48,970

$59,810

$65,040

$78,160

$88,640

Human Resources Department median · $92,524

The bar is the range of annual wages for Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks 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 Human Resources Department’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks — about 153,140 people — is $58,260. Human Resources Department’s median base salary is 59% above that national figure, above the 90th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$39,500

$47,990

$58,260

$69,600

$81,350

Human Resources Department median · $92,524

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 Human Resources Department is $155,248, 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.

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