Data Entry Specialist salary in Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA

Pay in Los Angeles-Long Beach against California and the US

The middle half of data entry specialists in Los Angeles-Long Beach earns $41,970–$58,070. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $63,890, only 1.7 times the bottom tenth, against 1.9 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $16,100 wide, wider than in California as a whole ($12,660) and the US ($12,650), so what a data entry specialist earns in Los Angeles-Long Beach depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a data entry specialist here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $11,030 over the median, the 25th only $5,070 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $14,232 a year in employer cost. These percentiles describe what people in the job earn locally, not experience levels, so place your offer by the tasks and seniority you need.

For scale, the US median of $41,340 falls between the 10th and 25th percentiles in Los Angeles-Long Beach, and the California statewide median of $47,010 falls between the 25th percentile and the median. An offer at the national rate would be lower than what three quarters of local data entry specialists earn.

What a hire really costs in Los Angeles-Long Beach

Pay is only part of it. Benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², which adds about $13,657 to the $47,040 median and brings it to $60,697 a year. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

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Other roles in Los Angeles-Long Beach

Of the 17 roles we track in Los Angeles-Long Beach, this one ranks #15 by median pay, between customer support specialists ($48,840) and e-commerce order specialists ($46,590). Project Coordinator is the highest at $108,310.

Measured against the US median, data entry specialists rank #5 of the 17 roles we track in Los Angeles-Long Beach (+13.8%), between HR assistants (+13.8%) and sales development representatives (+13.5%). The typical role here is at +11.9%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Data entry specialists hold 1.0% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Los Angeles-Long Beach, 0.9% across California and 0.8% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in California

Across the 25 areas of California with data for this job, the median runs from $39,520 in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara to $54,510 in San Jose-Sunnyvale, a gap of $14,990 a year. No other area in California has as many data entry specialists, and 20 of the other 24 pay less.

Los Angeles-Long Beach against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Los Angeles-Long Beach is #2 of 389 US areas, one of the ten largest markets for this job. Outside California, Twin Falls and Bangor pay just above Los Angeles-Long Beach and Seattle-Tacoma and Crestview-Fort Walton Beach just below. All four are within $490 a year of the median in Los Angeles-Long Beach. Of the three markets closest in size, none pays as much.

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