Occupation / job
Legal Support Workers, All Other
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
A midpoint of $72,110 against $50,020 means Legal Support Workers, All Other pays $1,840 a month more than the typical American job. At that distance the entry requirement is the real subject, because it is what the premium is buying.
46,760 people are employed as Legal Support Workers, All Other. At that scale every large metro has a real market, and the difference between a good year and a bad one is usually which employer you are at rather than whether anyone is hiring.
Legal support work suits people who can be relied on for accuracy under a filing deadline, and who are content that the credit for the outcome goes to the person arguing it.
We carry no verified training length for Legal Support Workers, All Other — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter earn under $54,940, a quarter over $109,360: $4,535 a month between them at a 2.0x ratio. Planning around the midpoint of a spread this wide is planning around a number very few people in Legal Support Workers, All Other actually earn.
The bottom quarter of Legal Support Workers, All Other still clears $54,940 — $4,920 above the $50,020 typical job. A high floor is the most valuable and least advertised property an occupation can have.
Avoid it if you would resent doing the substantive work on a matter that will be signed, argued and credited by someone else.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 46,760 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
From $54,940 to $109,360 at 2.0x: something inside this occupation sorts people a long way apart. Identifying what it is — sector, employer, credential — is worth more than any general advice about Legal Support Workers, All Other.
Put in money rather than ratios: $54,940 at the 25th percentile, $72,110 at the midpoint, $109,360 at the 75th. $54,420 separates the quarter of Legal Support Workers, All Other at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Getting to $109,360, the 75th percentile, is worth $37,250 a year more than the $72,110 midpoint and $54,420 more than the $54,940 a quarter of Legal Support Workers, All Other settle for.
From $72,110 the drop to $54,940 is $17,170 and the climb to $109,360 is $37,250. When the upper half of the range is that much longer, the average is pulled well above the median — which is exactly why this site publishes the median.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Legal Support Workers, All Other is $34.66 an hour. The quarters sit at $26.41 and $52.57, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Legal Support Workers, All Other for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $72,110 describes them.
The hourly number on this page is $72,110 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Legal Support Workers, All Other, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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