Los Angeles County / Regional Planning Department / Secretary II
Job-title file
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
1 employees hold this title in Regional Planning Department. Median total compensation for the role is $74,958, below the department median of $170,444.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — about 58,800 people — is $53,550. Regional Planning Department pays a median base salary of $51,279 for this role, 4% below that figure — about the 44th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive 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 Regional Planning Department’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — about 1,706,790 people — is $47,540. Regional Planning Department’s median base salary is 8% above that national figure, about the 59th 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 Regional Planning Department is $74,958, 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
Secretary II is held in 20 Los Angeles County departments. In Regional Planning Department, the median of $74,958 ranks #20 of 20.
Median total compensation for the Secretary II 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 27 jurisdictions. In Los Angeles County, the median of $114,909 ranks #2 of 27. See Secretary across all of Los Angeles County →
Median total compensation for comparable Secretary 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
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Secretary II/Regional Planning Department
At Regional Planning Department, Adrian Chatman serves as a Secretary II. Their 2025 pay totaled $74,958.