Legal Secretary

Across all employers in the Pittsburgh, PA area, the median wage for Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants — about 1,450 people — is $47,180. County Solicitor pays a median base salary of $47,086 for this role, in line with that figure — about the 50th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 5 of 6 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.

Median total compensation for this role at County Solicitor is $47,114, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Legal Secretary is held in 2 Allegheny County, Pennsylvania departments. In County Solicitor, the median of $47,114 ranks #1 of 2.

This role is reported in 21 jurisdictions. In Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, the median of $37,763 ranks #14 of 21. See Legal Secretary across all of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania →