Los Angeles County / Mental Health / Nurse Practitioner

Job-title file

Nurse Practitioner

Provide direct patient care — assess conditions, administer treatment and medication, and coordinate with physicians.

56 employees hold this title in Mental Health. Median total compensation for the role is $222,795, above the department median of $137,568.

Employees: 56
Total payroll: $11.4M
Role median: $222,795
Agency median: $137,568
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$528$301,379+

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

How total compensation varies among the 56 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

Nurse Practitioner 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 Nurse Practitioners — about 10,060 people — is $161,470. Mental Health pays a median base salary of $149,382 for this role, 7% below that figure — about the 39th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Mental Health sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$119,950

$133,240

$161,470

$178,790

$216,180

Mental Health median · $149,382

The bar is the range of annual wages for Nurse Practitioners 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 Nurse Practitioners — about 323,040 people — is $132,300. Mental Health’s median base salary is 13% above that national figure, about the 68th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$101,340

$117,990

$132,300

$156,700

$174,420

Mental Health median · $149,382

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 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 Mental Health is $222,795, 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

Nurse Practitioner is held in 10 Los Angeles County departments. In Mental Health, the median of $222,795 ranks #10 of 10.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Health Services - Integrated Correctional Health Services

$276,264 · 48

Ambulatory Care Network

$268,337 · 116

Health Services

$262,897 · 23

Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center

$258,574 · 14

Los Angeles General Medical Center

$255,115 · 146

Harbor-Ucla Medical Center

$249,783 · 132

Health Services - Community Programs

$243,220 · 9

Olive View-Ucla Medical Center

$241,009 · 59

Public Health

$240,938 · 6

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

Compare jurisdictions

Nurse Practitioner beyond Los Angeles County

This role is reported in 12 jurisdictions. In Los Angeles County, the median of $257,881 ranks #2 of 12. See Nurse Practitioner across all of Los Angeles County →

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

City and County of San Francisco

$281,721 · 237

$132,267 · 14

$129,540 · 9

$122,477 · 150

$117,154 · 102

$114,375 · 39

$114,339 · 40

$99,721 · 7

Median total compensation for comparable Nurse Practitioner roles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.

Record list