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Legal Assistants And Paralegals
Career and Education Info
Job Numbers and Growth
Approximately 238,000 people work as legal assistants and paralegals. For this occupation, the unemployment is considered to be very low.
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
Employees that work part-time represent 11% of the total in 2008. Legal assistants and paralegals who work for themselves represent about 2% of the total.
Training and Education
An associate degree is useful when pursuing this career. Among employees, 45% graduated from college with 4 year degrees. 43% of people working as legal assistants and paralegals went to college but did not obtain a degree. 13% of workers completed high school but did not pursue a college education. Recommended schools are shown in the column to the right; request information from them to help you decide which, if any, could help you with this career.
Area Job Conditions
Finding jobs for employees may be easier in Charleston (West Virginia), Washington (District of Columbia), and New York (New York), and the most challenging in Provo (Utah), Holland (Michigan), and Youngstown (Ohio).
The pay for these jobs is highest in San Jose (California), San Francisco (California), and New York (New York) and lowest in Iowa City (Iowa), Elkhart (Indiana), and Harrisonburg (Virginia).
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Legal Assistants And Paralegals: Job and Salary Data by Metropolitan Area
The table below shows data for Legal Assistants And Paralegals, as of 2008. The Popularity in Area number tells you how common jobs for Legal Assistants And Paralegals are in the area, compared to other US metro areas. A value of 1.0 means an average number of people in the position for area population. Lower numbers mean fewer of these positions in the metro area. The most popular areas for Legal Assistants And Paralegals are starred .
State Area Positions Typical Pay Popularity in Area Alabama Birmingham 1,110 $47,440 1 Alabama Gadsden 60 $36,330 1 Alabama Huntsville 170 $35,800 0.4 Alabama Mobile 230 $43,510 0.6 Alabama Montgomery 280 $39,450 0.8 Alabama Tuscaloosa 110 $31,800 0.6 Alaska Anchorage 380 $55,360 1.2 Alaska Fairbanks 50 $49,580 0.9 Arizona Flagstaff 40 $40,210 0.4 Arizona Phoenix 4,270 $49,340 1.1 Arizona Prescott 110 $35,980 1 Arizona Tucson 690 $44,710 0.9 Arizona Yuma 50 $41,190 0.5 Arkansas Fayetteville 270 $35,130 0.7 Arkansas Fort Smith 160 $37,510 0.7 Arkansas Little Rock 790 $46,370 1.1 California Bakersfield 160 $53,600 0.3 California Chico 90 $34,540 0.7 California Fresno 470 $50,920 0.7 California Modesto 230 $51,600 0.7 California Napa 130 $55,150 1.1 California Oakland 1,760 $57,410 0.8 California Oxnard 480 $55,230 0.8 California Redding 40 $53,220 0.3 California Riverside 1,110 $52,390 0.4 California Sacramento 1,410 $52,440 0.8 California Salinas 150 $44,830 0.5 California San Diego 2,230 $55,970 0.8 California San Francisco 3,570 $62,170 1.7 California San Jose 1,970 $61,920 1 California Santa Ana 2,820 $56,800 0.9 California Santa Cruz 80 $57,300 0.5 California Santa Rosa 150 $48,490 0.4 California Stockton 140 $65,890 0.3 California Vallejo 110 $54,730 0.5 California Visalia 170 $34,830 0.6 Colorado Boulder 250 $46,870 0.8 Colorado Colorado Springs 380 $40,500 0.7 Colorado Denver 3,610 $50,150 1.4 Colorado Fort Collins 230 $41,320 1 Colorado Grand Junction 60 $45,500 0.6 Colorado Greeley 90 $40,550 0.6 Connecticut Bridgeport 1,200 $50,450 1.3 Connecticut Danbury 100 $48,790 0.8 Connecticut Hartford 1,950 $53,260 1.6 Connecticut New Haven 790 $43,640 1.4 Connecticut Norwich 220 $43,930 0.9 Connecticut Waterbury 220 $41,480 1.7 Delaware Dover 90 $41,440 0.9 Delaware Wilmington 1,010 $52,720 1.5 District of Columbia Washington 9,800 $59,580 2Florida Cape Coral 400 $42,100 1 Florida Deltona 530 $38,280 1.7 Florida Fort Lauderdale 2,360 $47,370 1.6 Florida Fort Walton Beach 120 $35,420 0.8 Florida Gainesville 180 $33,150 0.8 Florida Jacksonville 1,150 $43,990 0.9 Florida Lakeland 440 $36,450 1.1 Florida Miami 3,430 $48,870 1.7 Florida Naples 230 $49,270 1 Florida Ocala 310 $36,800 1.7 Florida Orlando 2,290 $47,120 1.1 Florida Palm Bay 330 $37,320 0.8 Florida Panama City 230 $37,210 1.8 Florida Pensacola 470 $35,560 1.6 Florida Port St Lucie 310 $42,710 1.3 Florida Punta Gorda 60 $34,680 0.9 Florida Sarasota 650 $40,600 1.2 Florida Tallahassee 500 $41,960 1.6 Florida Tampa 3,070 $48,850 1.2 Florida West Palm Beach 1,940 $48,220 1.8 Georgia Albany 60 $36,310 0.5 Georgia Athens 90 $36,440 0.6 Georgia Atlanta 6,510 $49,980 1.3 Georgia Augusta 200 $44,840 0.5 Georgia Columbus 70 $45,000 0.3 Georgia Dalton 50 $39,260 0.3 Georgia Gainesville 70 $38,680 0.5 Georgia Rome 120 $37,590 1.9 Georgia Savannah 180 $47,140 0.6 Georgia Valdosta 50 $45,510 0.5 Hawaii Honolulu 720 $48,110 0.8 Idaho Boise 440 $43,490 0.8 Illinois Bloomington 140 $51,910 1.1 Illinois Champaign 90 $41,180 0.5 Illinois Chicago 6,800 $54,370 0.9 Illinois Peoria 140 $43,450 0.4 Illinois Springfield 190 $40,480 1 Indiana Columbus 50 $33,250 0.7 Indiana Elkhart 160 $27,350 0.6 Indiana Evansville 200 $35,050 0.6 Indiana Fort Wayne 240 $41,940 0.6 Indiana Gary 350 $35,130 0.6 Indiana Indianapolis 1,630 $44,150 0.9 Indiana Kokomo 60 $41,770 1 Indiana Lafayette 40 $42,040 0.3 Indiana South Bend 210 $36,960 0.8 Iowa Cedar Rapids 230 $40,550 0.9 Iowa Davenport 340 $46,610 0.9 Iowa Des Moines 490 $48,310 0.7 Iowa Dubuque 30 $35,730 0.3 Iowa Iowa City 40 $28,850 0.3 Iowa Sioux City 100 $33,980 0.8 Iowa Waterloo 80 $33,930 0.5 Kansas Lawrence 30 $39,950 0.4 Kansas Topeka 260 $39,470 1.2 Kansas Wichita 380 $37,820 0.6 Kentucky Bowling Green 160 $33,840 1.5 Kentucky Elizabethtown 50 $42,420 0.6 Kentucky Lexington 530 $36,820 1.1 Kentucky Louisville 1,110 $43,870 0.9 Kentucky Owensboro 50 $32,400 0.6 Louisiana Alexandria 140 $36,130 1.3 Louisiana Baton Rouge 540 $36,530 0.7 Louisiana Lafayette 430 $37,070 1.5 Louisiana Lake Charles 200 $33,730 1.2 Louisiana New Orleans 1,770 $43,640 1.7 Louisiana Shreveport 350 $46,350 1 Maine Bangor 160 $39,390 1.4 Maine Lewiston 70 $42,400 0.8 Maine Portland 720 $44,540 1.8 Maryland Baltimore 3,950 $49,230 1.5 Maryland Bethesda 1,430 $47,100 1.2 Maryland Hagerstown 250 $42,380 1.3 Massachusetts Barnstable Town 230 $42,070 1.2 Massachusetts Boston 4,660 $54,480 1.3 Massachusetts Brockton 70 $41,800 0.4 Massachusetts Framingham 230 $45,210 0.7 Massachusetts Haverhill 140 $42,230 1 Massachusetts Lawrence 110 $48,940 1.1 Massachusetts Lowell 190 $49,850 0.8 Massachusetts Pittsfield 50 $41,010 0.9 Massachusetts Springfield 600 $46,210 1 Massachusetts Taunton 110 $45,090 1.3 Massachusetts Worcester 340 $53,880 0.7 Michigan Ann Arbor 210 $57,590 0.6 Michigan Bay City 30 $36,750 0.5 Michigan Detroit 1,030 $53,590 0.7 Michigan Flint 70 $51,080 0.3 Michigan Grand Rapids 470 $56,240 0.6 Michigan Holland 40 $33,690 0.2 Michigan Kalamazoo 140 $47,210 0.5 Michigan Lansing 220 $47,460 0.6 Michigan Muskegon 110 $46,140 1 Michigan Niles 50 $48,930 0.4 Michigan Saginaw 70 $46,850 0.5 Michigan Warren 2,040 $48,180 0.9 Minnesota Duluth 120 $42,570 0.5 Minnesota Minneapolis 3,230 $51,650 0.9 Minnesota Rochester 120 $40,760 0.7 Minnesota St Cloud 170 $48,460 0.9 Mississippi Gulfport 130 $37,470 0.6 Mississippi Hattiesburg 60 $43,830 0.6 Mississippi Jackson 1,000 $39,010 2 Mississippi Pascagoula 80 $34,830 1 Missouri Jefferson City 90 $32,860 0.7 Missouri Joplin 40 $34,960 0.3 Missouri Kansas City 2,310 $49,330 1.1 Missouri Springfield 460 $37,460 1.2 Missouri St Joseph 90 $37,100 1 Missouri St Louis 2,380 $41,210 0.8 Montana Billings 100 $46,770 0.7 Montana Great Falls 30 $41,860 0.5 Montana Missoula 70 $43,720 0.7 Nebraska Lincoln 230 $37,500 0.7 Nebraska Omaha 730 $39,250 0.8 Nevada Carson City 40 $45,560 0.9 Nevada Las Vegas 1,160 $47,620 0.6 Nevada Reno 280 $54,300 0.7 New Hampshire Manchester 310 $45,260 1.5 New Hampshire Nashua 190 $42,670 0.7 New Hampshire Portsmouth 140 $45,370 1.4 New Jersey Atlantic City 250 $45,500 0.9 New Jersey Camden 1,000 $49,650 0.9 New Jersey Edison 1,360 $50,530 0.6 New Jersey Newark 2,230 $51,160 1.1 New Jersey Trenton 490 $50,990 1.1 New Jersey Vineland 130 $40,840 1.2 New Mexico Albuquerque 840 $37,940 1.1 New Mexico Farmington 140 $31,760 1.5 New Mexico Santa Fe 180 $42,120 1.5 New York Albany 1,000 $45,170 1.1 New York Binghamton 150 $43,620 0.7 New York Buffalo 1,270 $46,020 1.1 New York Ithaca 30 $44,050 0.4 New York Nassau 2,990 $53,900 1.1 New York New York 20,860 $60,670 2 New York Poughkeepsie 350 $54,610 0.7 New York Rochester 910 $44,080 0.9 New York Syracuse 500 $48,140 0.8 New York Utica 100 $45,060 0.4 North Carolina Asheville 580 $35,650 1.6 North Carolina Charlotte 1,990 $43,390 1.1 North Carolina Durham 540 $42,970 1 North Carolina Fayetteville 360 $38,580 1.5 North Carolina Goldsboro 80 $31,300 1.2 North Carolina Greensboro 590 $40,620 0.8 North Carolina Greenville 190 $30,920 1.4 North Carolina Hickory 160 $33,550 0.5 North Carolina Jacksonville 80 $30,410 1.1 North Carolina Raleigh 1,440 $44,760 1.4 North Carolina Rocky Mount 120 $32,470 1.1 North Carolina Wilmington 310 $34,610 1.1 North Carolina Winston Salem 740 $39,970 1.7 North Dakota Bismarck 70 $41,750 0.7 North Dakota Fargo 110 $44,620 0.5 Ohio Akron 510 $38,670 0.7 Ohio Canton 200 $40,500 0.6 Ohio Cincinnati 1,690 $42,670 0.8 Ohio Cleveland 2,050 $47,850 0.9 Ohio Columbus 1,480 $43,890 0.8 Ohio Dayton 340 $47,560 0.4 Ohio Lima 40 $46,430 0.4 Ohio Mansfield 40 $41,350 0.4 Ohio Toledo 460 $41,900 0.7 Ohio Youngstown 90 $28,960 0.2 Oklahoma Oklahoma City 1,410 $47,660 1.2 Oklahoma Tulsa 750 $41,640 0.8 Oregon Eugene 250 $40,550 0.9 Oregon Portland 1,980 $50,360 0.9 Oregon Salem 190 $40,700 0.6 Pennsylvania Allentown 260 $45,080 0.4 Pennsylvania Harrisburg 490 $45,010 0.8 Pennsylvania Johnstown 40 $46,090 0.4 Pennsylvania Lancaster 240 $40,140 0.5 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 4,860 $50,780 1.2 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh 1,740 $41,460 0.7 Pennsylvania Reading 190 $46,560 0.6 Pennsylvania Scranton 310 $35,220 0.6 Pennsylvania State College 50 $42,850 0.5 Pennsylvania Williamsport 50 $36,350 0.5 Pennsylvania York 160 $39,900 0.4 Rhode Island Providence 1,020 $46,650 0.9 South Carolina Anderson 80 $34,270 0.7 South Carolina Charleston 940 $42,220 1.6 South Carolina Columbia 1,130 $40,940 1.6 South Carolina Florence 150 $31,190 0.9 South Carolina Greenville 460 $43,730 0.7 South Carolina Myrtle Beach 240 $35,960 1 South Carolina Spartanburg 200 $37,320 0.8 South Carolina Sumter 90 $31,290 1.5 South Dakota Rapid City 100 $42,970 0.9 South Dakota Sioux Falls 180 $38,620 0.7 Tennessee Chattanooga 410 $49,810 0.9 Tennessee Clarksville 60 $31,020 0.4 Tennessee Cleveland 30 $34,150 0.5 Tennessee Jackson 130 $35,970 1.2 Tennessee Kingsport 250 $41,070 1.1 Tennessee Knoxville 580 $40,830 0.9 Tennessee Memphis 860 $42,090 0.7 Tennessee Morristown 50 $34,280 0.6 Tennessee Nashville 1,080 $42,980 0.7 Texas Abilene 90 $41,340 0.8 Texas Amarillo 220 $39,790 1.2 Texas Austin 1,580 $51,920 1 Texas Beaumont 330 $40,610 1.1 Texas College Station 120 $37,340 0.8 Texas Corpus Christi 350 $36,700 1 Texas Dallas 4,580 $56,820 1 Texas El Paso 400 $40,600 0.8 Texas Fort Worth 1,070 $51,930 0.6 Texas Houston 5,560 $48,540 1 Texas Killeen 90 $37,870 0.4 Texas Laredo 70 0.4 Texas Longview 190 $41,780 1.1 Texas Lubbock 130 $38,790 0.6 Texas Mcallen 290 $39,890 0.7 Texas Midland 120 $41,540 1 Texas San Antonio 1,510 $41,230 0.9 Texas Tyler 220 $38,140 1.3 Texas Victoria 30 $39,430 0.4 Texas Waco 170 $39,260 0.9 Utah Ogden 130 $39,430 0.3 Utah Provo 80 $43,490 0.2 Utah Salt Lake City 830 $46,690 0.6 Vermont Burlington 270 $49,970 1.3 Virginia Blacksburg 80 $36,750 0.7 Virginia Charlottesville 230 $37,340 1.3 Virginia Harrisonburg 70 $30,800 0.7 Virginia Lynchburg 110 $35,200 0.6 Virginia Richmond 1,710 $43,560 1.4 Virginia Roanoke 250 $40,480 0.8 Virginia Virginia Beach 1,320 $41,360 0.8 Washington Bellingham 130 $42,530 0.9 Washington Bremerton 80 $46,430 0.5 Washington Kennewick 90 $45,800 0.5 Washington Olympia 160 $48,820 0.9 Washington Seattle 3,280 $51,700 1.1 Washington Spokane 380 $40,850 0.9 Washington Tacoma 650 $42,500 1.2 Washington Yakima 190 $36,950 1.3 West Virginia Charleston 710 $37,300 2.5West Virginia Huntington 270 $36,530 1.2 West Virginia Parkersburg 160 $37,490 1.2 West Virginia Weirton 40 $32,180 0.5 West Virginia Wheeling 150 $39,610 1.3 Wisconsin Appleton 140 $32,630 0.6 Wisconsin Janesville 50 $32,320 0.4 Wisconsin Madison 510 $49,260 0.8 Wisconsin Milwaukee 1,610 $49,270 0.9 Wisconsin Oshkosh 110 $39,780 0.7 Wisconsin Racine 70 $46,460 0.5 Wisconsin Sheboygan 50 $36,040 0.5 Wisconsin Wausau 190 $35,350 1.5 Wyoming Casper 100 $34,340 1.5 Wyoming Cheyenne 140 $42,110 1.8
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