Los Angeles County / Public Health / Health Educator
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
28 employees hold this title in Public Health. Median total compensation for the role is $129,086, below the department median of $162,589.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 28 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
Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Health Education Specialists — about 4,320 people — is $62,380. Public Health pays a median base salary of $83,084 for this role, 33% above that figure — about the 78th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Health Education 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 Public Health’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Health Education Specialists — about 65,690 people — is $64,070. Public Health’s median base salary is 30% above that national figure, about the 71st 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 Public Health is $129,086, 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
Health Educator is held in 5 Los Angeles County departments. In Public Health, the median of $129,086 ranks #4 of 5.
Median total compensation for the Health Educator role in other Los Angeles Countydepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 7 jurisdictions. In Los Angeles County, the median of $130,197 ranks #2 of 7. See Health Educator across all of Los Angeles County →
Median total compensation for comparable Health Educatorroles 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
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Health Educator/Public Health
Stephanie Argueta is a Health Educator at Public Health. 2025 total compensation came to $146,354.