Allegheny County, Pennsylvania / District Attorney / Legal Secretary
Job-title file
Provide legal advice, draft and review documents, and represent the agency in legal matters.
24 employees hold this title in District Attorney. Median total compensation for the role is $37,561, below the department median of $53,622.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 24 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Pittsburgh, PA area, the median wage for Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants — about 1,450 people — is $47,180. District Attorney pays a median base salary of $37,388 for this role, 21% below that figure — about the 11th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants across every employer in the Pittsburgh, PA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows District Attorney’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants — about 156,280 people — is $55,570. District Attorney’s median base salary is 33% below that national figure, about the 12th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Pittsburgh, PA range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 18 of 24 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 District Attorney is $37,561, 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.
Compare departments
Legal Secretary is held in 2 Allegheny County, Pennsylvania departments. In District Attorney, the median of $37,561 ranks #2 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Legal Secretary role in other Allegheny County, Pennsylvaniadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
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 →
Median total compensation for comparable Legal Secretaryroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Legal Secretary/District Attorney
Source-specific fields
Kathleen S Tait holds the role of Legal Secretary at District Attorney. Their hire date on record is 5/10/1982. In 2023, their total compensation was $49,742.