Kenedy Care

If you took this job, you would live in a metro where the cost of living sits about 14% above the national level. Affordable places to rent tend to sit farther from job centers, which is why so many people end up in a car for a 25–40 mile drive on congested freeways. Housing and transportation together run about $8,000 above the national average and can eat roughly half of a household's costs. Culver City comes up when new nurses talk neighborhoods. California is not a compact-license state, and the state income tax is graduated, with the highest brackets in the country. Around you, the same market includes Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, USC, Cedars-Sinai, Keck Medical Center of USC, Kaiser Permanente, and the County of Los Angeles. The nearby medians we do have are about $50.44 an hour at USC, about $62.61 an hour at Cedars-Sinai, and $200 an hour at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital. Nurses comparing notes on LA often stack SoCal pay against the Bay Area; some stay for southern California, and others look toward quieter, lower-cost parts of the state.