Los Angeles County / Mental Health / Medical Case Worker II

Job-title file

Medical Case Worker II

Assess client needs, develop service plans, and connect people with support resources.

417 employees hold this title in Mental Health. Median total compensation for the role is $124,122, below the department median of $137,568.

Employees: 417
Total payroll: $50.2M
Role median: $124,122
Agency median: $137,568
Comparison: Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$3,111$156,019+

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

How total compensation varies among the 417 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

Medical Case Worker II 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 Healthcare Social Workers — about 6,340 people — is $79,830. Mental Health pays a median base salary of $70,820 for this role, 11% below that figure — about the 37th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Mental Health sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$52,720

$63,020

$79,830

$103,470

$131,450

Mental Health median · $70,820

The bar is the range of annual wages for Healthcare Social Workers 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 Mental Health’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Healthcare Social Workers — about 187,630 people — is $67,880. Mental Health’s median base salary is 4% above that national figure, about the 55th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$46,220

$56,710

$67,880

$82,240

$100,360

Mental Health median · $70,820

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.

Computed over the 403 of 421 people in this role paid at least $25,000in 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 Mental Health is $123,996, 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

This role across Los Angeles County

Medical Case Worker II is held in 9 Los Angeles County departments. In Mental Health, the median of $124,122 ranks #8 of 9.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center

$136,321 · 17

Health Services

$131,259 · 12

Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services

$130,784 · 70

Harbor-Ucla Medical Center

$130,729 · 44

Los Angeles General Medical Center

$129,243 · 72

Ambulatory Care Network

$128,004 · 54

Olive View-Ucla Medical Center

$126,184 · 42

Health Services - Community Programs

$114,004 · 2

Median total compensation for the Medical Case Worker II role in other Los Angeles Countydepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

Record list