California / Department of Health Care Services / Attorney
Job-title file
Attorney
Provide legal advice, draft and review documents, and represent the agency in legal matters.
16 employees hold this title in Department of Health Care Services. Median total compensation for the role is $116,874, above the department median of $90,379.
- Employees
- 16
- Total payroll
- $1.8M
- Role median
- $116,874
- Agency median
- $90,379
- 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
Attorney pay vs. California
Across all employers in California, the median wage for Lawyers — about 95,770 people — is $195,080. Department of Health Care Services pays a median base salary of $152,265 for this role, 22% below that figure — about the 33rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Department of Health Care Services sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Lawyers across every employer in California, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Health Care Services’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Lawyers — about 754,500 people — is $159,670. Department of Health Care Services’s median base salary is 5% below that national figure, about the 47th 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 California range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 108 of 111 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 Department of Health Care Services is $152,808, 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 California
Attorney is held in 82 California departments. In Department of Health Care Services, the median of $116,874 ranks #8 of 82.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Attorney role in other Californiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
Attorney beyond California
This role is reported in 14 jurisdictions. In California, the median of $150,234 ranks #2 of 14. See Attorney across all of California →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
Median total compensation for comparable Attorneyroles 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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