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Legal Support Workers, All Other · SOC 23-2099

Legal Support Workers, All Other Salary in the Boston Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area

Figures describe the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Boston city limits.

Median annual wage$78,850
Median hourly wage$37.91

Legal Support Workers, All Other in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area earned a median of $78,850 per year ($37.91 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $54,980 at the 10th percentile to $161,620 at the 90th.

Pay distribution

Half of Legal Support Workers, All Other in the Boston metro area earn more than $78,850 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $63,520 and $115,990.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$54,980$63,520$78,850$115,990$161,620
Hourly$26.43$30.54$37.91$55.76$77.70

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Boston metro areathis metro area
    $78,850
  • Massachusettsstate (MA)
    $77,830
  • United Statesnational
    $72,110

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is +1% vs Massachusetts overall and +9% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$31,890$77,823$123,757$169,690Bloomington, IL — $31,890Hammond, LA — $37,480Monroe, LA — $43,250Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $43,730Cedar Rapids, IA — $43,990Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $44,470Salem, OR — $45,010Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA — $45,450Iowa City, IA — $45,460Pueblo, CO — $45,970Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $46,380Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $47,070Springfield, IL — $47,430Grand Junction, CO — $47,750Baton Rouge, LA — $48,010Lake Charles, LA — $48,040Winston-Salem, NC — $48,450Port St. Lucie, FL — $49,280Alexandria, LA — $49,640Ocala, FL — $50,430Sioux City, IA-NE-SD — $52,440Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $53,160San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $54,060Missoula, MT — $54,520Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $54,660Reno, NV — $54,920Asheville, NC — $54,950Columbus, GA-AL — $55,450Urban Honolulu, HI — $55,490Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $55,610Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $55,730Charleston, WV — $55,890Flint, MI — $55,890Tallahassee, FL — $56,580Omaha, NE-IA — $56,600Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $56,880New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $56,960Greensboro-High Point, NC — $57,110Columbia, SC — $57,160Eugene-Springfield, OR — $57,160Oklahoma City, OK — $57,160Tulsa, OK — $57,160Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA — $57,310Colorado Springs, CO — $57,320New Haven, CT — $57,910Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $58,060Chattanooga, TN-GA — $58,110Lexington-Fayette, KY — $58,430Knoxville, TN — $58,600Gainesville, FL — $58,800Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $58,900El Paso, TX — $59,010Peoria, IL — $59,340Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $59,820Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $59,880Punta Gorda, FL — $60,010Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $60,310Helena, MT — $60,330Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $60,750Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $60,820Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $60,860Jacksonville, FL — $61,500Albuquerque, NM — $61,510Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $61,780Lancaster, PA — $62,290Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $62,540Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $62,550North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $62,620Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $62,690Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $62,700Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $62,740Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $63,240Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $63,360Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $63,680Boise City, ID — $63,790Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $63,850Tucson, AZ — $63,880Greeley, CO — $65,080Birmingham, AL — $65,190Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $65,270Champaign-Urbana, IL — $65,490Dover, DE — $65,560Columbus, OH — $65,600Madison, WI — $65,960Ogden, UT — $65,970Cleveland, OH — $66,010Lincoln, NE — $66,030Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $66,050Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $66,160Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $67,120Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $67,510Savannah, GA — $68,070St. Louis, MO-IL — $68,080Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $69,160Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $69,930Stockton-Lodi, CA — $70,380Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $70,780Kansas City, MO-KS — $71,220Akron, OH — $71,240Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $71,490Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $71,930Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $72,250Anchorage, AK — $72,560Pittsburgh, PA — $74,360Modesto, CA — $74,670Worcester, MA — $76,070Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $77,150Portland-South Portland, ME — $77,280Naples-Marco Island, FL — $77,490Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $77,800Richmond, VA — $77,840Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $78,730Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $78,850San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $79,010Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $80,330Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $80,350Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $81,170Fresno, CA — $81,850Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $82,560New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $83,140Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $84,070Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $84,490Salinas, CA — $85,360Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $87,110Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $88,210San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $89,160San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $89,920Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $90,240Ithaca, NY — $92,000Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $92,650Rochester, NY — $93,250Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $93,830Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $94,320Ann Arbor, MI — $95,890Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $100,510Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $100,510Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $100,800Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $102,130San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $102,420Raleigh-Cary, NC — $105,210San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $107,980Lexington Park, MD — $128,090Boulder, CO — $134,890Charlottesville, VA — $139,240Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $169,690

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Boston metro area has the 33rd-highest published median for this occupation among the 145 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in Massachusetts

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for legal support workers, all other, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Boston metro areathis page
    $78,850
  • Worcester metro area
    $76,070

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Lawyers$183,350Paralegals and Legal Assistants$79,850Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates$221,710Judicial Law Clerks$143,350Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers$113,750Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers$68,400

Highest-paying metro areas for legal support workers, all others · Highest-paying occupations in Boston Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

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.