Legal Assistant Statistics 2026: Live Listings, Pay, Demand & Workforce

LawFirmHires had 810 open legal assistant listings from 532 employers on October 13, 2026.

498 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 662 in the previous 30 days.

At least 0.5% of legal assistant listings were fully remote and 0.7% hybrid on October 13, 2026.

Listings that do not mention a work arrangement are counted as on-site, so the real shares may be higher.

At least 5.6% of legal assistant listings were part-time on October 13, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share is likely higher.

The benefit legal assistant listings named most often on October 13, 2026 was dental & Vision, in 21.4% of listings, followed by PTO / Paid Time Off (19.1%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all legal assistant listings.

BLS counts paralegals and legal assistants as one occupation, so federal figures here cover both titles.

The median annual wage for paralegals and legal assistants was $62,890 in May 2025, and the middle half earned $50,340 to $80,080 (BLS OEWS, SOC 23-2011 (paralegals and legal assistants), May 2025).

Employers hiring legal assistants on LawFirmHires advertise a median of $23.00 an hour across 182 employers on October 13, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

For pay by state and percentile, see the legal assistant salary guide, and for the full distribution of posted pay see our quarterly legal assistant pay data release.

California had the most open legal assistant listings on October 13, 2026, with 140 (17.3% of the national total).

Florida followed with 106 (13.1%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with legal assistant openings in California.

532 employers had open legal assistant listings on LawFirmHires on October 13, 2026, and the five largest posted 11.5% of them.

440 employers (82.7%) had exactly one open legal assistant listing.

Paralegals and legal assistants held about 404,900 jobs in 2025, a single occupation in BLS data (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook).

75% of paralegal and legal assistant jobs were in legal services in 2025 (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook).

NALA treats "legal assistant" and "paralegal" as synonymous terms, as they are defined in state supreme court rules, statutes, ethics opinions and bar guidelines.

BLS projects little or no change in paralegal and legal assistant employment from 2025 to 2035, with about 40,800 openings a year (BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35).

For the full job outlook, see our paralegal job outlook guide.

For how to enter the field, see the legal assistant career guide.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid legal assistant listing on LawFirmHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all legal assistant jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a firm posting dozens of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, NALA and are quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

BLS wage figures cover employees only and leave out the self-employed.