Los Angeles County / Public Social Services Department / Social Worker Trainee
Job-title file
Assess client needs, develop service plans, and connect people with support resources.
287 employees hold this title in Public Social Services Department. Median total compensation for the role is $106,389, below the department median of $111,187.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 287 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 Social Workers, All Other — about 1,410 people — is $68,630. Public Social Services Department pays a median base salary of $60,898 for this role, 11% below that figure — about the 37th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Social Workers, All Other 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 Social Services Department’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Social Workers, All Other — about 62,930 people — is $71,900. Public Social Services Department’s median base salary is 15% below that national figure, about the 36th 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.
Computed over the 267 of 287 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 Public Social Services Department is $106,389, 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
Social Worker Trainee is held in 2 Los Angeles County departments. In Public Social Services Department, the median of $106,389 ranks #1 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Social Worker Trainee role in other Los Angeles Countydepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Record list
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Social Worker Trainee/Public Social Services Department
Travion Brown works as a Social Worker Trainee for Public Social Services Department. Travion earned $34,001 in 2025.
Social Worker Trainee/Public Social Services Department
Cynthia Rodriguez is a Social Worker Trainee at Public Social Services Department. 2025 total compensation came to $30,926.
Social Worker Trainee/Public Social Services Department
At Public Social Services Department, Yomira Pereyra serves as a Social Worker Trainee. Their 2025 pay totaled $29,679.
Social Worker Trainee/Public Social Services Department
Lorena Medel is a Social Worker Trainee at Public Social Services Department. 2025 total compensation came to $29,304.