Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Legal Assistant: $60K median posted pay.
From 28 salary bands employers posted on 30 open legal assistant roles in legal. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
No level is named often enough in these postings to build a ladder.
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys | 28 | — |
| Carr Allison | 1 | — |
| CACI | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open legal assistant roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Paralegal Support | 30 | — |
| Legal Research | 3 | — |
| Deposition Preparation | 2 | — |
| Continuous Improvement | 1 | — |
| Behavior Intervention | 1 | — |
| File and Archive Organization | 1 | — |
| Litigation Support | 1 | — |
| E-Discovery | 1 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site87%26 roles
- Not stated13%4 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 30 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 28 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Legal Assistant (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in legal, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.