City of Los Angeles / City Attorney / Legal Secretary II
Job-title file
Legal Secretary II
Provide legal advice, draft and review documents, and represent the agency in legal matters.
72 employees hold this title in City Attorney. Median total compensation for the role is $105,772, below the department median of $136,401.
- Employees
- 72
- Total payroll
- $7.4M
- Role median
- $105,772
- Agency median
- $136,401
- Comparison
- Below
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 72 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 Secretary II 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. City Attorney pays a median base salary of $88,332 for this role, 41% above that figure — about the 79th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where City Attorney sits in the local pay range
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 City 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. City Attorney’s median base salary is 59% above that national figure, about the 87th 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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 115 of 117 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 City Attorney is $104,988, 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 jurisdictions
Legal Secretary beyond City of Los Angeles
This role is reported in 21 jurisdictions. In City of Los Angeles, the median of $104,988 ranks #2 of 21. See Legal Secretary across all of City of Los Angeles →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
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.
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