Legal Support Workers, All Other salary

SOC 23-2099 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$72,110

per year, nationally

Middle half

$54,940–$109,360

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

46,760

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

-1.2%

4,700 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$43,800$179,960

10th: $43,800
25th: $54,940
Median: $72,110
75th: $109,360
90th: $179,960

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Associate's degree
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: None

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where legal support workers, all other earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Virginia	$179,960	101.1	—	—
2	District of Columbia	$88,480	109.9	1,770	8.38×
3	New Jersey	$88,210	108.8	660	0.51×
4	Kansas	$88,210	90.1	60	0.14×
5	Minnesota	$86,940	98.6	220	0.25×
6	California	$85,830	110.7	—	—
7	Washington	$85,630	107.0	1,080	1.01×
8	Alaska	$85,000	102.4	110	1.13×
9	New Hampshire	$82,890	104.2	130	0.63×
10	Delaware	$81,170	99.8	290	1.99×
11	Rhode Island	$79,350	102.3	90	0.58×
12	Massachusetts	$77,830	105.8	—	—
13	New York	$76,520	107.9	1,760	0.60×
14	Pennsylvania	$75,190	97.6	970	0.53×
15	Maine	$72,110	97.0	—	—
16	Missouri	$69,350	90.8	370	0.42×
17	Nebraska	$69,010	90.1	160	0.53×
18	Kentucky	$68,220	90.2	180	0.31×
19	Ohio	$67,230	92.8	690	0.41×
20	Colorado	$66,660	103.1	2,000	2.31×
21	Michigan	$66,280	96.2	1,020	0.77×
22	Vermont	$66,100	98.0	70	0.74×
23	Idaho	$64,480	95.5	60	0.22×
24	Utah	$64,380	98.9	280	0.54×
25	Illinois	$63,250	100.0	3,010	1.64×
26	North Carolina	$63,170	94.3	1,000	0.67×
27	Arizona	$63,160	100.7	—	—
28	Texas	$63,140	97.1	2,900	0.69×
29	Wisconsin	$63,130	94.1	390	0.44×
30	Hawaii	$62,530	110.0	200	1.09×
31	Oregon	$60,860	103.4	520	0.88×
32	Nevada	$60,820	100.0	1,080	2.32×
33	Georgia	$60,620	96.3	1,370	0.93×
34	Tennessee	$58,610	91.9	—	—
35	New Mexico	$57,780	92.2	120	0.45×
36	Indiana	$56,990	93.3	550	0.57×
37	Florida	$56,880	103.4	—	—
38	Mississippi	$55,930	87.0	100	0.29×
39	West Virginia	$55,890	89.5	160	0.77×
40	Montana	$55,850	94.6	190	1.24×
41	Oklahoma	$55,330	87.8	160	0.32×
42	North Dakota	$53,980	89.0	50	0.36×
43	Louisiana	$51,230	88.2	1,200	2.07×
44	Arkansas	$44,670	86.9	290	0.73×
45	Iowa	$44,470	87.8	760	1.61×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where legal support workers, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for legal support workers, all other

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$169,690	108.9	6,430	6.82×
2	Charlottesville, VA	$139,240	99.1	40	1.07×
3	Boulder, CO	$134,890	105.2	90	1.55×
4	Lexington Park, MD	$128,090	100.8	40	1.89×
5	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$107,980	110.4	380	1.11×
6	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$105,210	98.2	190	0.87×
7	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$102,420	115.6	840	1.18×
8	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$102,130	98.1	140	0.35×
9	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	$100,800	100.0	40	0.39×
10	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$100,510	103.7	100	2.58×
11	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$100,510	97.9	130	0.57×
12	Ann Arbor, MI	$95,890	100.9	70	1.02×
13	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$94,320	107.8	40	0.63×
14	Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA	$93,830	98.7	90	0.89×
15	Rochester, NY	$93,250	97.0	60	0.41×
16	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$92,650	110.5	—	—
17	Ithaca, NY	$92,000	103.3	40	2.74×
18	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$90,240	106.7	430	1.32×
19	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$89,920	111.9	570	1.23×
20	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$89,160	108.6	—	—
21	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	$88,210	97.6	90	0.83×
22	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$87,110	111.1	700	1.12×
23	Salinas, CA	$85,360	109.0	—	—
24	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$84,490	103.2	100	1.40×
25	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$84,070	104.8	190	0.32×
26	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$83,140	112.6	1,560	0.55×
27	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$82,560	100.9	—	—
28	Fresno, CA	$81,850	102.2	—	—
29	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$81,170	102.6	700	0.80×
30	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$80,350	95.4	90	0.26×
31	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$80,330	113.6	2,020	1.07×
32	San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR	$79,010	—	210	1.00×
33	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$78,850	108.3	—	—
34	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$78,730	101.8	130	0.59×
35	Richmond, VA	$77,840	97.9	330	1.64×
36	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$77,800	108.8	30	0.56×
37	Naples-Marco Island, FL	$77,490	103.2	30	0.65×
38	Portland-South Portland, ME	$77,280	101.9	60	0.64×
39	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$77,150	106.4	240	0.46×
40	Worcester, MA	$76,070	102.5	60	0.59×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where legal support workers, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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