Registered nurse and LPN jobs in Whittier, CA

Each job shows the pay its employer posts; too few here post an hourly rate for a typical range. Nurses pay across California is measured from more jobs.

By open jobs on this board: PIH Health (19), AHMC Healthcare (4) and Illumination Health + Home (3).

Ranked by the hourly rates each one posts for the registered nurse and LPN jobs open here, an employer with few rates weighed toward the others' so one high posting never outranks many: AHMC Healthcare (a median of $55.68 an hour across 3 posted rates) and Illumination Health + Home (most often $32–$35.50 an hour, a median of $33.75 across 2 posted rates). Posted pay is the base range, before shift differentials and bonuses.

1 of the open registered nurse and LPN jobs here says so in its own posting: Licensed Vocational Nurse at Elwyn (...Paid Time Off Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision Benefit Packages Earned Wage Access/On-Demand Pay Paid...).

2 of the open registered nurse and LPN jobs here say so in their own posting: Medical Coordinator (LVN) - Day Shift at Illumination Health + Home (Bilingual: Spanish. ...populations dealing with addiction and behavioral health conditions. Bilingual in...); Medical Coordinator (LVN) - Swing Shift at Illumination Health + Home (Bilingual: Spanish. ...populations dealing with addiction and behavioral health conditions. Bilingual in...).

2 of the open registered nurse and LPN jobs here say so in their own posting: Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN), Nursing Administration, Float pool, Full time, 8am-6:30pm at PIH Health; Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN), Nursing Administration, Float Pool, Full time, 8pm-6:30am (Internal Candidates Only) at PIH Health.

That depends on what you weigh most, so here is how the employers hiring nurses here compare on what their own postings state and on Medicare's ratings: the highest posted pay: AHMC Healthcare ($55.68/hr) and Illumination Health + Home ($32–$35.50/hr); Medicare's highest star rating of their hospitals here: Whittier Hospital Medical Center (4 of 5). Every employer side by side.

By their own postings here, a shift differential: Illumination Health + Home (evening $1.50 an hour). The employers compared.

Whittier Hospital Medical Center: 4 of 5 stars, 74% of patients said nurses always communicated well (Medicare, Jul 2026). Each one opens its employer's other hospitals and jobs. Patients' ratings of their care, not employees' of the jobs.

By each hospital's own report to Medicare (in 2022 pay periods, its own and contract staff together, before benefits), registered nurse hours averaged $69.09 at Pih Health Hospital-Whittier, $61.21 at Whittier Hospital Medical Center, against $85.20 an hour across California's hospitals. An average over every hour, not one job's pay. Every California hospital.

By what they reported to OSHA for 2025, in work injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers: Oakmont of Whittier (Oakmont Senior Living) 2.8, best estimate 3.1, against 3.8 at assisted living and continuing care communities nationwide. These are the employers' own reports. Workplace injuries in California.

An active RN or LPN/LVN license for the state you work in (or a multistate compact license). Each posting lists its own requirements.