2001 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates

Legal Occupations

These estimates are calculated with data collected from employers in all industry divisions in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas in every State and the District of Columbia. These and other data elements, including the 10th, 25th, 75th, and 90th percentile wages are available in the downloadable excel files. Estimates do not include self-employed workers.

Click on the SOC Code Number to view that occupation's definition, additional wage estimates, and relative standard error (RSE) estimates.

			Wage Estimates
SOC Code Number	Occupation Title	Employment (1)	Median Hourly	Mean Hourly	Mean Annual (2)	Mean RSE (3)
23-0000	Legal Occupations	909,370	$27.03	$33.19	$69,030	1.2 %
23-1011	Lawyers	490,000	$42.67	$44.19	$91,920	1.3 %
23-1021	Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers	30,520	$24.14	$27.30	$56,780	0.5 %
23-1022	Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators	5,060	$22.43	$26.13	$54,340	4.4 %
23-1023	Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates	27,890	$41.95	$38.24	$79,540	1.5 %
23-2011	Paralegals and Legal Assistants	183,550	$17.63	$18.86	$39,220	1.4 %
23-2091	Court Reporters	15,300	$19.43	$20.45	$42,530	2.0 %
23-2092	Law Clerks	40,340	$14.51	$15.52	$32,280	1.6 %
23-2093	Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers	42,720	$15.28	$17.12	$35,610	1.0 %

About 2001 National, State, and Metropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates

Estimates for residual, "All Other", occupations are not available.

(1) Data for detailed occupations does not sum to the totals because the totals include data for occupations not shown separately.

(2) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a "year-round, full-time" hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published, the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey data.

(3) The relative standard error (RSE) is a measure of the reliability of a survey statistic. The smaller the relative standard error, the more precise the estimate.

National OES estimates by SOC major group