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What legal assistants make
Median
$57,000
Lower end
$39,000
Upper end
$87,000
Job Bank's national median is $27.47 an hour, about $57,000 a year at 40 hours a week. The lower end ($18.75) and upper end ($41.72) are the bottom and top of the wage range for everyone in the group.