City of Los Angeles, CA · 2025 pay · 18 people
How much does a safety engineer make in City of Los Angeles, CA?
$123,579typical pay for a safety engineer in 2025
$104,010 – $158,844what most people earned
Includes everyone paid during 2025, including part-year workers. Typical pay fell 22.7% from 2024.
✓ Official data from LA City Controller · Matches the agency's latest release · controller.lacity.gov ↗
Where safety engineers work
Typical pay at each employer, 2025 (everyone paid).
Related jobs and the next step up
Same line of work at a different rank, by typical pay (full-year employees where we can tell).
- Assistant Safety Engineer$55,895 (everyone)
- Safety Engineer (this page)$123,579 (everyone)
- Associate Safety Engineer$127,920 (everyone)
Highest-paid safety engineers, 2025
- 1Calvin ToySafety Engineer · Los Angeles$175,975
- 2Joe WolfeSafety Engineer · Los Angeles$166,666
- 3Felix QuanSafety Engineer · Los Angeles$165,863
- 4Coil DunnSafety Engineer · Los Angeles$162,769
- 5Kwok-Ming ChoySafety Engineer · Los Angeles$158,991
Common questions
How much does a safety engineer make in City of Los Angeles, CA?
The typical safety engineer was paid $123,579 in 2025; most earned between $104,010 and $158,844. This counts all 18 people paid, including part-year workers.
How much of the pay is overtime?
Overtime made up 4.1% of all pay for safety engineers in 2025.
Which job titles are included?
Everyone whose payroll title is Safety Engineer, at any level (for example "Safety Engineer"). Part-time-schedule titles (such as "20 hours") are left out. Senior, supervising and trainee titles have their own pages.
Job titles are written out in full from the payroll's abbreviations (for example "SR CRRECTNL POLC OFCR" → "Senior Correctional Police Officer"). "Typical pay" is the median; "most earned" is the middle half. How we calculate this