Licensed Vocational Nurse I

Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses — about 33,590 people — is $79,310. Los Angeles General Medical Center pays a median base salary of $60,551 for this role, 24% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 121 of 136 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 Los Angeles General Medical Center is $101,548, 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.

Licensed Vocational Nurse I is held in 8 Los Angeles County departments. In Los Angeles General Medical Center, the median of $95,174 ranks #7 of 8.

This role is reported in 5 jurisdictions. In Los Angeles County, the median of $111,151 ranks #2 of 5. See Licensed Vocational Nurse across all of Los Angeles County →