Salary for Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

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Also known as:  Accredited Legal Secretary, Certified Legal Secretary Specialist, Law Secretary, Legal Administrative Assistant

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Legal Secretaries are professionals employed to perform clerical work inside of a law firm or other legal facility. Secretaries complete a varied itinerary of duties, often researching cases, compiling paperwork and documentation for court, answering telephones, entering in information into a computer system, scheduling consultations and meetings with lawyers and more. It is essential that one understand legal terminology in order to work as a legal secretary Experience is also very valuable. To work as a legal secretary one must have an associate's degree or higher as well as be friendly and professional in apperance.

A Legal Secretary and Administrative Assistant earns a pay level between $29,620 to $82,270 depending on tenure level. will normally get average salaries of fifty-two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars annually.

have the best average pay in District of Columbia, where they can earn pay of about $87,600. These people are compensated the highest in Utilities, where they receive an average salary rate of $70,770.

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SALARY TREND

The annual compensation for this career has gone up since 2004. Salaries have increased by an average of 39.05 percent nationwide in that time.

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Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants tend to make the most in the following industries:

Utilities
$70,770
Information
$69,550
Manufacturing
$65,400
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing
$62,100
Construction
$60,190
Management of Companies and Enterprises
$58,600

In general, they earn less within the industries below:

Health Care and Social Assistance
$43,580
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
$45,010
Wholesale Trade
$47,450
Administrative, Support and Waste Management Services
$47,480
Public Administration
$49,230
Educational Services
$52,670
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