Los Angeles County / Medical Examiner / Senior Public Information Specialist
Job-title file
Coordinate and deliver a specific program area, supporting planning, outreach, and daily operations.
1 employees hold this title in Medical Examiner. Median total compensation for the role is $197,453, above the department median of $125,681.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Public Relations Specialists — about 11,910 people — is $79,860. Medical Examiner pays a median base salary of $122,730 for this role, 54% above that figure — about the 83rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Public Relations Specialists 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 Medical Examiner’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Public Relations Specialists — about 283,380 people — is $74,750. Medical Examiner’s median base salary is 64% above that national figure, about the 85th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
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 Medical Examiner is $197,453, 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
Senior Public Information Specialist is held in 15 Los Angeles County departments. In Medical Examiner, the median of $197,453 ranks #7 of 15.
Median total compensation for the Senior Public Information Specialist role in other Los Angeles Countydepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
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Senior Public Information Specialist/Medical Examiner
Kelly Vail is a Senior Public Information Specialist at Medical Examiner. 2025 total compensation came to $197,453.