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

LawFirmHires had 520 open legal secretary listings from 284 employers on October 13, 2026.

255 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 382 in the previous 30 days.

At least 0.6% of legal secretary listings were fully remote and 2.3% 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 2.9% of legal secretary 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 secretary listings named most often on October 13, 2026 was dental & Vision, in 29.6% of listings, followed by PTO / Paid Time Off (27.3%).

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

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

The median annual wage for legal secretaries and administrative assistants was $55,570 in May 2025, and the middle half earned $44,450 to $71,970 (BLS OEWS, SOC 43-6012 (legal secretaries and administrative assistants), May 2025).

Employers hiring legal secretaries on LawFirmHires advertise a median of $75,000 a year across 74 employers on October 13, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

For pay by state and percentile, see the legal secretary salary guide.

California had the most open legal secretary listings on October 13, 2026, with 101 (19.4% of the national total).

New York followed with 53 (10.2%).

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

284 employers had open legal secretary listings on LawFirmHires on October 13, 2026, and the five largest posted 17.7% of them.

224 employers (78.9%) had exactly one open legal secretary listing.

Wage-and-salary employment of legal secretaries and administrative assistants was 156,280 in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, SOC 43-6012).

Law firms (the Legal Services industry, NAICS 5411) employed 125,980 legal secretaries and administrative assistants in May 2025 (BLS OEWS).

BLS projects legal secretary and administrative assistant employment to fall 5% from 2025 to 2035, from 157,600 to 149,300 jobs (BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35).

BLS cites AI and digital tools that let staff prepare their own documents as a reason secretary employment is projected to decline or barely change.

BLS says legal secretaries may train for several months to learn legal terminology, compared with a few weeks of on-the-job training typical for general secretaries.

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

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid legal secretary 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 secretary 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 and are quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

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