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What legal assistants make
Typical
$62,890
First job
$44,740
Senior in a big firm
$101,500
The federal wage survey counts legal assistants and paralegals as one occupation, so this median of $62,890 covers both. The bottom tenth start near $44,740. In practice the more substantive your work becomes, the closer you sit to the top of this range.