Environmental Health Specialist I

Coordinate and deliver a specific program area, supporting planning, outreach, and daily operations.

79 employees hold this title in Public Health. Median total compensation for the role is $58,481, below the department median of $162,589.

Employees: 79
Total payroll: $4.3M
Role median: $58,481
Agency median: $162,589
Comparison: Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$1,588$95,259+

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

How total compensation varies among the 79 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

Environmental Health Specialist I 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 Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health — about 2,520 people — is $105,340. Public Health pays a median base salary of $94,477 for this role, 10% below that figure — about the 41st percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Public Health sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$60,350

$76,320

$105,340

$133,440

$161,970

Public Health median · $94,477

The bar is the range of annual wages for Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health 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 Public Health’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health — about 89,250 people — is $82,220. Public Health’s median base salary is 15% above that national figure, about the 62nd percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$52,520

$64,490

$82,220

$107,970

$140,010

Public Health median · $94,477

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 358 of 396 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 Public Health is $149,026, 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 jurisdictions

Environmental Health Specialist beyond Los Angeles County

This role is reported in 3 jurisdictions. In Los Angeles County, the median of $149,026 ranks #1 of 3. See Environmental Health Specialist across all of Los Angeles County →

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

Johnson County, Kansas

$73,022 · 12

Florida

$42,600 · 37

Median total compensation for comparable Environmental Health Specialist 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