Mental Health Program Manager III

Lead staff and operations — set priorities, allocate resources, and oversee program delivery.

40 employees hold this title in Mental Health. Median total compensation for the role is $330,615, above the department median of $137,568.

Employees: 40
Total payroll: $12.3M
Role median: $330,615
Agency median: $137,568
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$21,398$367,953+

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

How total compensation varies among the 40 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

Mental Health Program Manager III 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 Medical and Health Services Managers — about 23,740 people — is $134,230. Mental Health pays a median base salary of $163,749 for this role, 22% above that figure — about the 65th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Mental Health sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$68,630

$95,530

$134,230

$182,850

$228,400

Mental Health median · $163,749

The bar is the range of annual wages for Medical and Health Services Managers 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 Medical and Health Services Managers — about 597,080 people — is $123,860. Mental Health’s median base salary is 32% above that national figure, about the 74th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$73,390

$94,700

$123,860

$166,100

$224,340

Mental Health median · $163,749

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 144 of 145 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 Mental Health is $265,252, 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

Mental Health Program Manager III is held in 2 Los Angeles County departments. In Mental Health, the median of $330,615 ranks #2 of 2.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services

$335,197 · 1

Median total compensation for the Mental Health Program Manager III role in other Los Angeles Countydepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

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