Legal Support Workers, All Other · SOC 23-2099

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Legal Support Workers, All Others

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for legal support workers, all other. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 145 metro areas

Legal Support Workers, All Other: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$169,690	6,430	2.1
2	Charlottesville, VA	$139,240	40	0.3
3	Boulder, CO	$134,890	90	0.5
4	Lexington Park, MD	$128,090	40	0.6
5	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$107,980	380	0.3
6	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$105,210	190	0.3
7	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$102,420	840	0.4
8	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$102,130	140	0.1
9	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	$100,800	40	0.1
10	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$100,510	100	0.8
11	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$100,510	130	0.2
12	Ann Arbor, MI	$95,890	70	0.3
13	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$94,320	40	0.2
14	Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA	$93,830	90	0.3
15	Rochester, NY	$93,250	60	0.1
16	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$92,650	Not published	Not published
17	Ithaca, NY	$92,000	40	0.8
18	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$90,240	430	0.4
19	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$89,920	570	0.4
20	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$89,160	Not published	Not published
21	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	$88,210	90	0.3
22	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$87,110	700	0.3
23	Salinas, CA	$85,360	Not published	Not published
24	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$84,490	100	0.4
25	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$84,070	190	0.1

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Legal Support Workers, All Other overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.