Registered Nurse III

Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Registered Nurses — about 109,360 people — is $135,560. Juvenile Court Health Services pays a median base salary of $120,762 for this role, 11% below that figure — about the 34th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 54 of 56 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in 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 Juvenile Court Health Services is $198,641, 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.

Registered Nurse III is held in 9 Los Angeles County departments. In Juvenile Court Health Services, the median of $214,416 ranks #7 of 9.

This role is reported in 15 jurisdictions. In Los Angeles County, the median of $182,642 ranks #2 of 15. See Registered Nurse across all of Los Angeles County →