Legal Office Support Assistant I

Provide legal advice, draft and review documents, and represent the agency in legal matters.

49 employees hold this title in County Counsel. Median total compensation for the role is $60,480, below the department median of $245,993.

Employees: 49
Total payroll: $3.1M
Role median: $60,480
Agency median: $245,993
Comparison: Below

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$1,846$120,177+

Hover a bar for its range; click to filter the list below.

How total compensation varies among the 49 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

Legal Office Support Assistant I pay vs. the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area

Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants — about 14,930 people — is $62,620. County Counsel pays a median base salary of $54,925 for this role, 12% below that figure — about the 36th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where County Counsel sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$36,490

$48,670

$62,620

$80,660

$108,310

County Counsel median · $54,925

The bar is the range of annual wages for Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants across every employer in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows County Counsel’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. County Counsel’s median base salary is 1% below that national figure, about the 49th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$36,500

$44,450

$55,570

$71,970

$91,730

County Counsel median · $54,925

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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA range relative to the national one.

Computed over the 81 of 96 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 Counsel is $92,620, 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 Los Angeles County

Legal Office Support Assistant I is held in 5 Los Angeles County departments. In County Counsel, the median of $60,480 ranks #5 of 5.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Child Support Services

$115,946 · 5

District Attorney

$109,184 · 96

Public Defender

$101,170 · 42

Alternate Public Defender

$87,682 · 6

Median total compensation for the Legal Office Support Assistant I role in other Los Angeles Countydepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

Record list