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OES

May 2004 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates

Legal Occupations

SOC major groups

These estimates are calculated with data collected from employers in all industry sectors in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas in every State and the District of Columbia. These and other data elements, including the 10th, 25th, 75th, and 90th percentile wages, are available in the downloadable Excel files(XLS).

Click on the SOC Code Number to view an occupational profile.

			Wage Estimates
SOC Code Number	Occupation Title	Employment (1)	Median Hourly	Mean Hourly	Mean Annual (2)	Mean RSE (3)
23-0000	Legal Occupations	958,520	$29.24	$38.42	$79,910	1.0 %
23-1011	Lawyers	521,130	$45.64	$52.30	$108,790	1.0 %
23-1021	Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers	14,830	$33.14	$35.44	$73,710	1.5 %
23-1022	Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators	4,940	$26.32	$29.08	$60,480	3.3 %
23-1023	Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates	25,500	$44.75	$42.96	$89,360	1.2 %
23-2011	Paralegals and Legal Assistants	210,020	$18.81	$19.95	$41,490	0.6 %
23-2091	Court Reporters	15,520	$20.63	$22.63	$47,070	2.8 %
23-2092	Law Clerks	43,300	$16.34	$16.92	$35,180	1.5 %
23-2093	Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers	53,700	$16.77	$18.93	$39,360	1.6 %
23-2099	Legal Support Workers, All Other	69,590	$20.26	$21.79	$45,330	0.4 %

About May 2004 National, State, and Metropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates

(1) Estimates for detailed occupations do not sum to the totals because the totals include occupations not shown separately. Estimates do not include self-employed workers.

(2) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a "year-round, full-time" hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published, the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey data.

(3) The relative standard error (RSE) is a measure of the reliability of a survey statistic. The smaller the relative standard error, the more precise the estimate.

National OES estimates by SOC major group