Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
United States. Estimated employment 156,280, with pages for 5 metro areas below.
Data released May 2025
BLS OEWS · SOC 43-6012
Fig. 1 — The wage rule
Where you sit in the distribution
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$55,570 · 50th
$36,50010th
$44,45025th
$55,57050th
$71,97075th
$91,73090th
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in the US earn more.
Table 1 — By metro area
Where it pays
Every published Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants page, by median pay. Employment is the BLS estimate for the metro.
| Metro area | Median | Employment |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose, CA | $87,270 | 660 |
| San Francisco, CA | $79,410 | 2,740 |
| Santa Maria, CA | $74,360 | 160 |
| Oxnard, CA | $71,670 | 590 |
| Los Angeles, CA | $62,620 | 14,930 |
Sources
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Employment
- 156,280 employed in this occupation nationally (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 43-6012, Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants. Mapped to our taxonomy as legal-secretaries-and-administrative-assistants.
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