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Paralegals and Legal Assistants

Occupation · SOC 23-2011 · Legal · BLS OEWS · Annual · Atlanta (Beta)

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Employment · Atlanta May 2025

10,290 −4.81%down YoY
Employment · ATL / U.S.
10,290 / 392,880
Median Annual Pay · ATL / U.S.
$64,080 / $62,890
  • Atlanta left axis
  • U.S. right axis

Employment · BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) · Atlanta May 2021 – May 2025 · U.S. May 2021 – May 2025

Paralegals and Legal Assistants — Employment. Atlanta: 5 observations, May 2021 – May 2025. U.S.: 5 observations, May 2021 – May 2025.
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What's happening with Paralegals and Legal Assistants

Employment for Paralegals and Legal Assistants in Atlanta is 10,290 (May 2025), down 4.81% from a year earlier. Median annual pay is $64,080.

Source: BLS OEWS · May 2025

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Key Stats

Employment10,290May 2025
Employment Change−4.81%downYoY
Median Annual Pay$64,080May 2025
Median Annual Pay Change+7.14%upYoY
Mean Annual Pay$76,560May 2025
P10 Pay$45,500May 2025
P25 Pay$50,700May 2025
P75 Pay$83,250May 2025
P90 Pay$105,310May 2025
Jobs per 1,0003.56May 2025
Location Quotient1.41May 2025
SOC Code23-2011
Occupation FamilyLegal23-0000

Pay Distribution Atlanta (Beta) · May 2025

  1. P10 $45,500
  2. P25 $50,700
  3. Median $64,080
  4. P75 $83,250
  5. P90 $105,310

Annual wage percentiles as published (BLS OEWS). Only the five published points are drawn; nothing between them is estimated.

Job Economy Report the market for this role · Atlanta (Beta)

Employment

10,290
−4.81%down YoY

5 annual observations

Employment Concentration

Jobs per 1,0003.56May 2025
Location Quotient1.41May 2025

Atlanta (Beta) · relative to all occupations

Atlanta vs. U.S. matching OEWS measures

MeasureAtlantaU.S.Atlanta vs U.S.
Employment May 2025 10,290 −4.81%down 392,880 +6.99%up
Median Annual Pay May 2025 $64,080 +7.14%up $62,890 +3.08%up +1.9% vs U.S.
Mean Annual Pay May 2025 $76,560 +15.3%up $69,700 +4.80%up +9.8% vs U.S.
P25 Pay May 2025 $50,700 +7.51%up $50,340 +4.46%up +0.7% vs U.S.
P75 Pay May 2025 $83,250 +9.18%up $80,080 +2.30%up +4.0% vs U.S.

Atlanta is msa:12060; no other area's figure is substituted. Badges are each geography's own published year change.

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Performance Overview change over each horizon the series supports

Employment · 1 Year

−4.81%down

May 2025

  • Legal +0.81%up
  • All occupations +0.62%up

Employment · 3 Year

+15.6%up

since 2022

Median Pay · 1 Year

+7.14%up

May 2025

  • Legal +21.2%up
  • All occupations +2.81%up

Median Pay · 3 Year

+8.50%up

since 2022

Data & Methodology

Source BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)
Dataset bls.oews
Program Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (annual, May reference)
Reference Period May 2025
Geography Atlanta (Beta) (msa:12060)
SOC Code 23-2011
Occupation Family Legal Occupations (23-0000)
Published Measures 9 of 9
Employment Series Paralegals and Legal Assistants — Employment
Employment Metric ID bls.oews.employment.soc_23_2011
Employment Observations 5
Hiring Context Market-wide BLS JOLTS (national); no occupation-level hiring series is published
Description Source O*NET 30.1 Database (O*NET-SOC 23-2011.00)
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