Lawyer, paralegal and legal-staff pay by state and metro (BLS OEWS)
Description
How many lawyers, paralegals and legal assistants work in the US, in each state and DC, and in the larger metro areas, and what they are paid: the mean annual wage, the median and the 10th, 25th, 75th and 90th percentile wages, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey, May 2025. Every figure carries its BLS series id; figures BLS does not release are marked suppressed and never filled in. OEWS counts employees only: it leaves out owners, partners and the self-employed, so it is not what a firm's owners earn.
1264 records (status: P 1264). Canonical page: https://probativegrowth.com/data/lawyer-wages/. API: https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/lawyer-wages/index.json. Published by Probative Growth (probativegrowth.com), a marketing agency for US law firms; not a law firm. Not legal advice. These are wage and employment statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, kept for marketing planning. They cover employees only, not owners or partners.
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- Employment law
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- Estate planning
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- Family law
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