Wage Survey Results -
Legal Occupations
Los Angeles County, 2000
These survey data are from the 1999 Occupational Employment
Statistics survey. The wages have all been updated to the fourth quarter
of 2000 by applying the Employment cost Index to the 1999 wages.
|
Occupational Title |
Entry-Level Hourly Wage (1) |
Mean
Hourly Wage |
Mean
Annual Wage |
25th
Percentile Hourly Wage |
50th
Percentile (Median) Hourly Wage |
75th
Percentile Hourly Wage |
|
Total all occupations |
$7.62 |
$18.15 |
$37,735 |
$9.01 |
$14.40 |
$22.98 |
|
Legal Occupations |
$19.31 |
$40.85 |
$84,970 |
$23.18 |
$39.90 |
$61.70 |
| Lawyers |
$39.04 |
$54.26 |
$112,871 |
$45.05 |
$59.68 |
$67.66 |
|
Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers |
$19.32 |
$30.01 |
$62,413 |
$20.30 |
$26.70 |
$38.38 |
|
Paralegals and Legal Assistants |
$23.22 |
$27.29 |
$56,757 |
$24.20 |
$26.89 |
$31.07 |
| Law
Clerks |
$12.84 |
$20.87 |
$43,413 |
$14.01 |
$16.17 |
$27.14 |
| Title
Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers |
$12.52 |
$19.18 |
$39,895 |
$14.23 |
$18.09 |
$22.37 |
| All
Other Legal and Related Workers |
$13.41 |
$17.56 |
$36,540 |
$14.43 |
$16.49 |
$19.72 |
(1) The mean of the first third of the wage
distribution is provided as a proxy for entry-level wage.
Source: California
Employment Development Dept.
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