California / Motor Vehicles / Attorney
Job-title file
Provide legal advice, draft and review documents, and represent the agency in legal matters.
6 employees hold this title in Motor Vehicles. Median total compensation for the role is $108,182, above the department median of $65,028.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in California, the median wage for Lawyers — about 95,770 people — is $195,080. Motor Vehicles pays a median base salary of $132,837 for this role, 32% below that figure — about the 26th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
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 Motor Vehicles’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. Motor Vehicles’s median base salary is 17% below that national figure, about the 38th 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 30 of 32 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in 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 Motor Vehicles is $139,800, 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
Attorney is held in 82 California departments. In Motor Vehicles, the median of $108,182 ranks #37 of 82.
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
This role is reported in 14 jurisdictions. In California, the median of $150,234 ranks #2 of 14. See Attorney across all of California →
Median total compensation for comparable Attorney 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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Attorney/Motor Vehicles
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At Motor Vehicles, Mark Luthin serves as a Attorney. They work full-time. Their 2025 pay totaled $139,084. Their bargaining unit is R02.
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Robert Louie holds the role of Attorney at Motor Vehicles. Their status is full-time. In 2025, their total compensation was $116,519. They are represented by R02.
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Benjamin Merritt holds the role of Attorney at Motor Vehicles. Their status is full-time. In 2023, their total compensation was $114,576. Their bargaining unit is R02.
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Madeline Duncan is a Attorney at Motor Vehicles. They work full-time. 2025 total compensation came to $101,788. Their bargaining unit is R02.
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Jessica Freeman holds the role of Attorney at Motor Vehicles. Their status is full-time. In 2025, their total compensation was $91,052. They are represented by R02.
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Flerida Zabala is a Attorney at Motor Vehicles. They work full-time. 2023 total compensation came to $21,329. They are represented by R02.