Compared with the local labor market
Legal Secretary pay vs. the Baton Rouge, LA area
Across all employers in the Baton Rouge, LA area, the median wage for Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants is $51,320. Parish Attorney pays a median base salary of $48,673 for this role, 5% below that figure — about the 37th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Parish Attorney sits in the local pay range
$36,830
$46,380
$51,320
$75,700
$75,830
Parish Attorney median · $48,673
The bar is the range of annual wages for Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants across every employer in the Baton Rouge, LA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Parish 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. Parish Attorney’s median base salary is 12% below that national figure, about the 34th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$36,500
$44,450
$55,570
$71,970
$91,730
Parish Attorney median · $48,673
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 Baton Rouge, LA range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 3 of 5 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in 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 Parish Attorney is $29,815, 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
This role across City of Baton Rouge / East Baton Rouge Parish
Legal Secretary is held in 4 City of Baton Rouge / East Baton Rouge Parish departments. In Parish Attorney, the median of $29,815 ranks #4 of 4.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Legal Secretary role in other City of Baton Rouge / East Baton Rouge Parishdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.