School District of Philadelphia / Office of General Counsel / Paralegal I
Job-title file
Provide legal advice, draft and review documents, and represent the agency in legal matters.
1 employees hold this title in Office of General Counsel. Median total compensation for the role is $55,105, below the department median of $101,482.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area, the median wage for Paralegals and Legal Assistants — about 11,150 people — is $70,430. Office of General Counsel pays a median base salary of $60,392 for this role, 14% below that figure — about the 26th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Paralegals and Legal Assistants across every employer in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Office of General Counsel’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Paralegals and Legal Assistants — about 392,880 people — is $62,890. Office of General Counsel’s median base salary is 4% below that national figure, about the 45th 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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Office of General Counsel is $60,392, 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
This role is reported in 25 jurisdictions. In School District of Philadelphia, the median of $60,392 ranks #10 of 25. See Paralegal across all of School District of Philadelphia →
Median total compensation for comparable Paralegal roles 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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Paralegal I/Office of General Counsel
Source-specific fields
At Office of General Counsel, Morgan Glanton serves as a Paralegal I. Their 2026 pay totaled $55,105. Their bargaining unit is Non-Represented.