Regional labor costOEWS 2025SOC 29-1141

Registered Nurses Labor Cost in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

In the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area (an OEWS metropolitan statistical area, not municipal city limits), the median hourly wage for Registered Nurses (SOC 29-1141) was $65.18 in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS); the middle half of workers earned between $53.88 and $80.67 an hour.

Wage snapshot

OFFICIAL · BLS OEWS

Low · P25

$53.88

Hourly

Typical · Median

$65.18

Primary planning wage

High · P75

$80.67

Hourly

Calculator

OFFICIAL wagesYOUR INPUT scheduleDERIVED results

Adjust schedule assumptions. Wage percentiles stay OFFICIAL; annual outputs are DERIVED from your USER_INPUT.

Estimated annual team wage cost · DERIVED

$135,574

Wages only — benefits and payroll taxes are excluded.

Based on median BLS hourly wage $65.18 · schedule defaults 1 × 40 × 52

Low (P25)

$53.88

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Typical (Median)

$65.18

Annual / worker: $135,574

Team total shown above

High (P75)

$80.67

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Official data summary

OEWS geography: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
Geography type: metro · area 0031080
Occupation: Registered Nurses (29-1141)
Data year: 2025
Employment (OFFICIAL): 109,360
Wage value class: OFFICIAL

UI label	OEWS basis	Hourly (OFFICIAL)	Annual OEWS (OFFICIAL)
Low	P25	$53.88	$112,070
Typical	Median	$65.18	$135,560
High	P75	$80.67	$167,800

Annual values are not interchangeable

OEWS annual median (OFFICIAL):$135,560 — published by BLS for this occupation and area.
Schedule-derived annual typical (DERIVED):$135,574 —hourly median × 40 × 52 from USER_INPUT schedule defaults. Do not treat this as a replacement for the OEWS annual median.

How this estimate is calculated

DERIVED

BLS median hourly (OFFICIAL)Hours / week (YOUR INPUT)Weeks / year (YOUR INPUT)Team size (YOUR INPUT)Estimated annual team cost

Low / Typical / High map to OEWS hourlyP25 / Median / P75(OFFICIAL). This is a transparent percentile mapping, not a confidence interval.
Calculator annual figures are DERIVED:hourly × hours/week × weeks/year, then × headcount for team cost.
Hours/week, weeks/year, and headcount are USER_INPUT(defaults 40 × 52 × 1).
OEWS wages exclude overtime, shift differentials, nonproduction bonuses, and employer benefit costs. Self-employed workers are excluded.

Data source

OFFICIAL

Publisher: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Dataset: OEWS
Occupation / SOC: Registered Nurses / 29-1141
Geography: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
Data year: 2025
Reference period: May 2025
Source URL: https://www.bls.gov/oes/ (oesm25ma.zip bulk (MSA_M2025_dl.xlsx))
Verification / retrieval: 2026-09-23T05:36:04Z
Content hash / version: cc3e6fa80edf64ab · oews-bulk-cc3e6fa80edf
Data version: oews-may-2025