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Job Numbers and Growth
The number of jobs for legal secretaries in the US is about 275,000. Recent data shows that this occupation has a low level of unemployment.
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
Of those working as employees, 19% work fewer than 40 hours per week. Around 1% of legal secretaries are independent contractors.
Training and Education
An associate degree is often required to work in this field. Survey data provided by the government shows that 18% of employees have a bachelor's degree or higher. 49% of legal secretaries attended college, but do not have a degree. 33% of workers were able to find a job with only a high school 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
On a per capita basis, there are more jobs for employees in Great Falls (Montana), Newark (New Jersey), and Macon (Georgia), and fewer jobs in Rochester (Minnesota), Nashua (New Hampshire), and Knoxville (Tennessee).
Compensation for legal secretaries is the most in San Jose (California), San Francisco (California), and Washington (District of Columbia), and the lowest in Elizabethtown (Kentucky), Dothan (Alabama), and Jacksonville (North Carolina).
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Legal Secretaries: Job and Salary Data by Metropolitan Area
The table below shows data for Legal Secretaries, as of 2008. The Popularity in Area number tells you how common jobs for Legal Secretaries 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 Secretaries are starred .
State Area Positions Typical Pay Popularity in Area Alabama Auburn 90 $28,870 1.1 Alabama Birmingham 1,830 $36,040 1.7 Alabama Decatur 30 $30,110 0.3 Alabama Dothan 100 $23,620 0.9 Alabama Florence 70 $26,810 0.8 Alabama Huntsville 290 $30,740 0.7 Alabama Mobile 480 $35,950 1.4 Alabama Montgomery 410 $31,270 1.2 Alaska Anchorage 340 $44,840 1.1 Alaska Fairbanks 40 $45,310 0.7 Arizona Flagstaff 80 $35,390 0.8 Arizona Phoenix 3,250 $42,090 0.9 Arizona Tucson 810 $37,790 1.1 Arizona Yuma 110 $32,400 1 Arkansas Fayetteville 220 $30,430 0.6 Arkansas Fort Smith 140 $27,120 0.6 Arkansas Little Rock 560 $32,820 0.8 Arkansas Pine Bluff 50 $23,580 0.9 California Bakersfield 230 $38,680 0.4 California Chico 150 $46,710 1.2 California El Centro 60 $27,770 0.7 California Fresno 580 $46,610 0.9 California Merced 60 $33,180 0.6 California Modesto 180 $51,500 0.6 California Oakland 1,280 $51,020 0.6 California Oxnard 440 $46,910 0.7 California Redding 120 $31,140 1 California Riverside 1,270 $38,540 0.5 California Sacramento 2,020 $44,290 1.1 California Salinas 150 $48,140 0.5 California San Diego 2,800 $44,300 1 California San Francisco 3,430 $60,380 1.7 California San Jose 1,630 $64,040 0.9 California Santa Ana 3,250 $48,970 1.1 California Santa Barbara 200 $43,670 0.6 California Santa Rosa 300 $43,660 0.8 California Stockton 200 $39,320 0.5 California Vallejo 110 $41,950 0.5 California Visalia 120 $38,430 0.5 California Yuba City 120 $33,400 1.8 Colorado Boulder 180 $46,460 0.6 Colorado Denver 2,320 $46,260 0.9 Colorado Fort Collins 100 $34,600 0.4 Colorado Grand Junction 60 $34,490 0.6 Connecticut Bridgeport 640 $48,620 0.7 Connecticut Danbury 40 $44,860 0.3 Connecticut Hartford 950 $49,490 0.8 Connecticut New Haven 430 $45,180 0.8 Connecticut Waterbury 140 $36,730 1.1 Delaware Dover 160 $33,120 1.7 Delaware Wilmington 1,020 $47,330 1.6 District of Columbia Washington 8,890 $58,530 1.9 Florida Cape Coral 270 $41,410 0.7 Florida Deltona 260 $32,560 0.9 Florida Fort Lauderdale 2,540 $40,570 1.7 Florida Gainesville 250 $30,640 1.2 Florida Jacksonville 1,020 $37,450 0.8 Florida Lakeland 240 $32,820 0.6 Florida Miami 3,990 $41,350 2 Florida Ocala 150 $30,810 0.9 Florida Orlando 2,340 $41,490 1.1 Florida Palm Bay 180 $38,780 0.5 Florida Panama City 90 $29,490 0.7 Florida Pensacola 320 $33,950 1.1 Florida Port St Lucie 250 $37,270 1 Florida Punta Gorda 50 $36,290 0.7 Florida Sarasota 450 $35,200 0.9 Florida Tallahassee 400 $39,110 1.3 Florida Tampa 2,840 $37,410 1.2 Florida West Palm Beach 1,880 $42,940 1.7 Georgia Albany 160 $29,750 1.5 Georgia Atlanta 4,050 $45,940 0.8 Georgia Augusta 410 $33,200 1 Georgia Columbus 200 $28,280 1 Georgia Dalton 60 $30,810 0.4 Georgia Hinesville 30 $30,190 1.5 Georgia Macon 410 $28,460 2.2Georgia Savannah 300 $33,160 1 Georgia Valdosta 140 $27,360 1.4 Georgia Warner Robins 110 $30,210 1.3 Hawaii Honolulu 570 $44,600 0.7 Idaho Boise 540 $38,250 1 Idaho Idaho Falls 110 $29,740 1.3 Idaho Lewiston 60 $30,070 1.6 Illinois Bloomington 130 $42,940 1 Illinois Champaign 160 $34,840 0.9 Illinois Chicago 10,370 $46,520 1.3 Illinois Danville 70 $33,130 1.7 Illinois Decatur 30 $33,700 0.4 Illinois Kankakee 60 $32,730 0.9 Illinois Peoria 430 $37,140 1.3 Illinois Rockford 460 $34,380 1.6 Illinois Springfield 170 $37,250 0.9 Indiana Anderson 30 $30,390 0.4 Indiana Bloomington 100 $28,430 0.8 Indiana Evansville 180 $30,950 0.5 Indiana Fort Wayne 320 $36,070 0.8 Indiana Gary 550 $29,550 1 Indiana Indianapolis 1,670 $41,570 0.9 Indiana Kokomo 60 $41,680 1 Indiana Lafayette 120 $33,220 0.9 Indiana Muncie 60 $28,260 0.8 Indiana South Bend 120 $31,550 0.5 Indiana Terre Haute 140 $23,120 1.1 Iowa Ames 50 $24,820 0.8 Iowa Cedar Rapids 150 $33,710 0.6 Iowa Davenport 420 $37,430 1.2 Iowa Des Moines 510 $36,920 0.8 Iowa Iowa City 100 $29,250 0.8 Kansas Lawrence 80 $28,880 1 Kansas Topeka 250 $24,980 1.2 Kansas Wichita 280 $31,490 0.5 Kentucky Bowling Green 70 $29,720 0.7 Kentucky Elizabethtown 40 $23,260 0.5 Kentucky Lexington 290 $36,130 0.6 Kentucky Louisville 720 $38,010 0.6 Kentucky Owensboro 80 $29,120 0.9 Louisiana Alexandria 160 $27,020 1.5 Louisiana Baton Rouge 690 $32,660 0.9 Louisiana Lafayette 390 $34,140 1.4 Louisiana Lake Charles 220 $32,140 1.4 Louisiana Monroe 210 $30,780 1.5 Louisiana New Orleans 1,560 $39,480 1.5 Louisiana Shreveport 290 $32,670 0.9 Maine Bangor 70 $31,810 0.6 Maine Lewiston 80 $35,030 0.9 Maine Portland 380 $37,230 1 Maryland Baltimore 1,940 $42,240 0.7 Maryland Bethesda 560 $41,480 0.5 Maryland Cumberland 60 $33,150 1 Maryland Hagerstown 130 $30,000 0.7 Massachusetts Barnstable Town 100 $35,550 0.5 Massachusetts Boston 4,680 $54,030 1.3 Massachusetts Framingham 180 $38,170 0.6 Massachusetts Leominster 60 $33,640 0.7 Massachusetts New Bedford 140 $35,550 1.2 Massachusetts Pittsfield 50 $29,920 0.9 Massachusetts Springfield 430 $38,860 0.7 Massachusetts Taunton 50 $44,740 0.6 Massachusetts Worcester 460 $43,280 0.9 Michigan Battle Creek 40 $33,930 0.5 Michigan Bay City 70 $30,310 1.2 Michigan Detroit 1,160 $45,940 0.8 Michigan Flint 270 $32,610 1 Michigan Grand Rapids 670 $41,960 0.9 Michigan Jackson 70 $33,940 0.8 Michigan Kalamazoo 180 $40,730 0.7 Michigan Lansing 590 $41,490 1.6 Michigan Muskegon 50 $40,120 0.5 Michigan Niles 50 $32,930 0.5 Michigan Saginaw 100 $36,220 0.7 Michigan Warren 1,870 $44,590 0.8 Minnesota Duluth 170 $37,320 0.7 Minnesota Minneapolis 3,510 $48,160 1 Minnesota Rochester 40 $38,690 0.2 Minnesota St Cloud 60 $32,630 0.3 Mississippi Gulfport 90 $35,640 0.4 Mississippi Jackson 560 $41,210 1.1 Mississippi Pascagoula 80 $30,680 1 Missouri Jefferson City 70 $30,720 0.6 Missouri Joplin 150 $26,480 1 Missouri Kansas City 1,680 $37,970 0.8 Missouri St Louis 2,490 $41,020 0.9 Montana Billings 170 $32,300 1.1 Montana Great Falls 140 $28,320 2.4Montana Missoula 140 $24,400 1.5 Nebraska Lincoln 220 $37,420 0.7 Nebraska Omaha 560 $37,770 0.6 Nevada Carson City 80 $42,220 1.8 Nevada Las Vegas 1,440 $44,140 0.8 Nevada Reno 580 $44,780 1.4 New Hampshire Manchester 210 $41,730 1.1 New Hampshire Nashua 60 $34,160 0.2 New Hampshire Portsmouth 70 $39,390 0.7 New Hampshire Rochester 100 $35,440 1 New Jersey Atlantic City 320 $37,760 1.1 New Jersey Camden 1,620 $40,930 1.5 New Jersey Edison 2,540 $43,620 1.2 New Jersey Newark 4,840 $45,970 2.4New Jersey Ocean City 110 $40,940 1.5 New Jersey Trenton 680 $45,770 1.6 New Jersey Vineland 110 $34,720 1.1 New Mexico Albuquerque 590 $32,560 0.8 New Mexico Farmington 70 $30,950 0.8 New Mexico Santa Fe 90 $35,990 0.8 New York Albany 1,250 $37,230 1.4 New York Binghamton 180 $34,190 0.9 New York Buffalo 1,490 $33,760 1.4 New York Elmira 60 $37,410 1 New York Ithaca 100 $34,140 1.4 New York Kingston 140 $31,640 1.3 New York Nassau 4,960 $42,270 2 New York New York 20,530 $45,430 2 New York Poughkeepsie 500 $38,120 1.1 New York Rochester 1,150 $34,400 1.1 New York Syracuse 810 $34,770 1.3 New York Utica 190 $27,270 0.8 North Carolina Burlington 70 $36,510 0.7 North Carolina Charlotte 1,210 $41,190 0.7 North Carolina Durham 170 $34,840 0.3 North Carolina Fayetteville 70 $31,790 0.3 North Carolina Greensboro 300 $33,130 0.4 North Carolina Jacksonville 80 $19,870 1.1 North Carolina Raleigh 730 $45,550 0.7 North Carolina Wilmington 80 $38,640 0.3 North Carolina Winston Salem 240 $40,990 0.6 North Dakota Bismarck 170 $30,070 1.7 North Dakota Fargo 180 $33,300 0.8 North Dakota Grand Forks 40 $30,410 0.5 Ohio Akron 670 $32,860 1 Ohio Canton 230 $29,360 0.7 Ohio Cincinnati 1,600 $40,730 0.8 Ohio Cleveland 2,730 $39,700 1.3 Ohio Columbus 1,210 $39,140 0.6 Ohio Dayton 620 $35,790 0.8 Ohio Mansfield 70 $32,150 0.8 Ohio Sandusky 50 $26,330 0.8 Ohio Springfield 70 $25,300 0.9 Ohio Toledo 440 $37,750 0.7 Ohio Youngstown 350 $28,310 0.8 Oklahoma Oklahoma City 910 $31,250 0.8 Oklahoma Tulsa 660 $32,040 0.8 Oregon Bend 160 $36,650 1.3 Oregon Corvallis 40 $30,120 0.8 Oregon Eugene 260 $30,640 0.9 Oregon Medford 160 $34,470 1 Oregon Portland 2,260 $43,420 1.1 Oregon Salem 490 $33,180 1.7 Pennsylvania Allentown 720 $31,050 1.1 Pennsylvania Altoona 120 $29,600 1.1 Pennsylvania Erie 220 $28,480 0.9 Pennsylvania Harrisburg 650 $36,920 1 Pennsylvania Johnstown 100 $35,470 1 Pennsylvania Lancaster 290 $35,180 0.6 Pennsylvania Lebanon 70 $36,230 0.9 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 6,760 $43,390 1.8 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh 2,960 $34,500 1.3 Pennsylvania Reading 300 $35,470 0.9 Pennsylvania Scranton 720 $25,090 1.4 Pennsylvania State College 80 $34,400 0.8 Pennsylvania Williamsport 140 $26,180 1.6 Pennsylvania York 150 $33,530 0.4 Rhode Island Providence 1,360 $36,470 1.2 South Carolina Charleston 590 $33,030 1 South Carolina Columbia 810 $36,420 1.2 South Carolina Greenville 590 $34,790 1 South Carolina Myrtle Beach 220 $40,890 1 South Carolina Spartanburg 170 $32,870 0.7 South Dakota Sioux Falls 130 $33,120 0.5 Tennessee Chattanooga 290 $33,610 0.6 Tennessee Clarksville 120 $28,420 0.9 Tennessee Knoxville 120 $39,950 0.2 Tennessee Memphis 630 $37,680 0.5 Tennessee Nashville 1,040 $35,980 0.7 Texas Abilene 40 $26,620 0.4 Texas Amarillo 120 $38,480 0.6 Texas Austin 1,740 $39,680 1.1 Texas Beaumont 220 $37,150 0.7 Texas Brownsville 250 $27,870 1.1 Texas Corpus Christi 270 $34,830 0.8 Texas Dallas 4,460 $46,400 1 Texas El Paso 310 $33,370 0.6 Texas Fort Worth 880 $40,270 0.5 Texas Houston 3,210 $45,790 0.6 Texas Laredo 160 $26,240 1.1 Texas Longview 80 $33,500 0.5 Texas Lubbock 110 $31,840 0.5 Texas Mcallen 420 $28,620 1 Texas Midland 110 $33,650 0.9 Texas Odessa 70 $36,160 0.7 Texas San Antonio 1,000 $38,440 0.6 Texas Texarkana 90 $26,640 0.9 Texas Waco 150 $31,810 0.8 Texas Wichita Falls 70 $41,080 0.7 Utah Provo 190 $29,920 0.6 Utah Salt Lake City 1,330 $39,170 1.1 Vermont Burlington 130 $39,510 0.6 Virginia Richmond 790 $41,560 0.7 Virginia Roanoke 140 $35,980 0.5 Virginia Virginia Beach 740 $36,660 0.5 Washington Bellingham 150 $32,790 1 Washington Bremerton 80 $36,470 0.5 Washington Kennewick 80 $40,910 0.5 Washington Longview 40 $33,380 0.7 Washington Mount Vernon 80 $34,050 1 Washington Olympia 250 $41,890 1.4 Washington Seattle 2,400 $46,490 0.8 Washington Spokane 290 $35,550 0.7 Washington Wenatchee 100 $34,970 1.5 West Virginia Charleston 400 $33,490 1.4 West Virginia Huntington 210 $27,510 1 West Virginia Morgantown 100 $31,450 1.2 West Virginia Parkersburg 140 $27,110 1.1 West Virginia Weirton 50 $27,770 0.7 Wisconsin Appleton 90 $32,100 0.4 Wisconsin Fond 50 $31,870 0.7 Wisconsin Green Bay 140 $33,370 0.4 Wisconsin La Crosse 80 $31,180 0.6 Wisconsin Madison 440 $41,140 0.7 Wisconsin Milwaukee 1,540 $39,860 0.9 Wisconsin Oshkosh 80 $29,750 0.5 Wisconsin Racine 90 $35,690 0.6 Wisconsin Sheboygan 60 $33,590 0.6 Wyoming Casper 50 $29,340 0.8
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