City of Los Angeles / General Services / Plumber
Job-title file
Plumber
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
16 employees hold this title in General Services. Median total compensation for the role is $157,273, above the department median of $83,247.
- Employees
- 16
- Total payroll
- $2.5M
- Role median
- $157,273
- Agency median
- $83,247
- Comparison
- Above
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 16 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
Plumber 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 Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters — about 15,690 people — is $71,110. General Services pays a median base salary of $115,378 for this role, 62% above that figure — about the 84th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where General Services sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters 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 General Services’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters — about 465,840 people — is $63,800. General Services’s median base salary is 81% above that national figure, above the 90th 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 General Services is $157,273, 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 City of Los Angeles
Plumber is held in 8 City of Los Angeles departments. In General Services, the median of $157,273 ranks #3 of 8.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Plumber role in other City of Los Angelesdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
Plumber beyond City of Los Angeles
This role is reported in 25 jurisdictions. In City of Los Angeles, the median of $148,693 ranks #4 of 25. See Plumber across all of City of Los Angeles →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
Median total compensation for comparable Plumberroles 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.
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