Lawyer, paralegal and legal-staff pay by state and metro (BLS OEWS)

Version 2.0.0. CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23898132

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Source: Probative, Lawyer, paralegal and legal-staff pay by state and metro (BLS OEWS), version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23898132, licensed CC BY 4.0.

Suggested citation:
Probative. (2026). Lawyer, paralegal and legal-staff pay by state and metro (BLS OEWS) (Version 2.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23898132

Not legal advice. These are wage and employment statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, kept for marketing planning. They cover employees only, not owners or partners.
Probative is a marketing firm, not a law firm; not legal advice.

Human page: https://probativegrowth.com/data/lawyer-wages/

Columns:
  id: Stable record id (never reused)
  area: US, a two-letter state code (DC included) or the 5-digit metro (CBSA) code
  areaName: Area name
  areaType: us, state or metro
  soc: Standard Occupational Classification code
  occupation: 
  year: The OEWS reference year (May)
  status: P: published by BLS
  meanAnnual: Mean annual wage in US dollars
  p10: 10th percentile annual wage
  p25: 25th percentile annual wage
  medianAnnual: Median annual wage in US dollars
  p75: 75th percentile annual wage
  p90: 90th percentile annual wage
  wageRsePct: BLS relative standard error of the mean wage estimate, percent
  unit: Unit of value
  text: The record in one plain-English sentence
  lastChecked: The day it was last confirmed (YYYY-MM-DD)
  sourceLabels: Sources, separated by " | "
  sourceUrls: Source URLs, in the same order
  confidence: high, medium or low: computed from status, a second check, age against the refresh cadence and sampling error (rule: /data/#confidence)
  confidenceBasis: The reasons for the confidence level, in a short phrase
  employment: Employees in the occupation (BLS rounds these) (in lawyer-wages-values.csv, as id, column and value rows)
  locationQuotient: Share of the area's jobs in the occupation relative to the US (1.0 = the US share), for states and metro areas (in lawyer-wages-values.csv, as id, column and value rows)
  employmentRsePct: BLS relative standard error of the employment estimate, percent (in lawyer-wages-values.csv, as id, column and value rows)