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Paralegals and Legal Assistants H-1B salaries

The median wage offered on certified H-1B applications for Paralegals and Legal Assistants stood at $68,000 in FY2025, according to the Department of Labor’s LCA disclosure data.

Standard Occupational Classification 23-2011. The Department of Labor certified 203 H-1B applications for it in FY2025, from 141 employers; the median is over the 135 full-time offers paid by the year, and half of them were between $59,079 and $80,151.

Every fiscal year

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Certified H-1B applications for Paralegals and Legal Assistants and the median offered wage, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearCertifiedMedian offered wage
FY2026 to June 2026227$76,939
FY2025203$68,000
FY2024182$65,062

The open fiscal year is to date, and is not set against a whole one. Wages are in each year’s dollars. How the wage is read.

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Compiled automatically from U.S. Department of Labor — LCA Disclosure Data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3) by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

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