Legal Support Workers, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Legal Support Workers, All Other offer sit among all 47,380 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

BLS counted 47,380 Legal Support Workers, All Other jobs in May 2024, which is 0.03% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in District of Columbia, where the location quotient is 8.76, meaning the occupation holds 8.76 times its national share of local jobs. Virginia employs the most people outright, 4,230 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 21.3% of the national total.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $135,440 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($176,950) is 4.3 times the 10th percentile ($41,510), a gap of $135,440 a year. The mean of $86,220 sitting above the median of $68,760 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

The state spread for Legal Support Workers, All Other runs from the $176,950 median in Virginia down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Virginia (4,230 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Legal Support Workers, All Other stands number 399 by employment and number 292 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Legal Occupations, the group median wage is $68,760 across 8 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 0% more than its group median, and it supplies 3.7% of the group's 1,273,410 jobs. In 14 of the 46 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $68,760, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV is the largest metro employer with 6,650 jobs, 14.0% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, New Orleans-Metairie, LA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $59,550 a year, against $139,960 in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $68,760 a year is $5,730 a month gross, $2,645 every two weeks, $1,322 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($50,960) to the 75th ($103,460) is worth $52,500 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $5,730 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $75,636 would sit between the median ($68,760) and the 75th percentile ($103,460), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $50,960, is $17,800 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Legal Occupations

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: Paralegals and Legal Assistants, Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers, Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates, Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers, Judicial Law Clerks, Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.