Dental Assistant

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. Juvenile Court Health Services pays a median base salary of $50,254 for this role, 7% above that figure — about the 73rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Median total compensation for this role at Juvenile Court Health Services is $98,689, 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.

Dental Assistant is held in 6 Los Angeles County departments. In Juvenile Court Health Services, the median of $98,689 ranks #4 of 6.

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 →