Compared with the local labor market
Senior Legal Secretary pay vs. the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area
Across all employers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area, the median wage for Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants — about 2,010 people — is $65,790. County Attorney's Office pays a median base salary of $59,314 for this role, 10% below that figure — about the 30th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where County Attorney's Office sits in the local pay range
$45,750
$57,700
$65,790
$79,520
$93,550
County Attorney's Office median · $59,314
The bar is the range of annual wages for Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants across every employer in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows County Attorney's Office’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 Attorney's Office’s median base salary is 7% above that national figure, about the 56th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$36,500
$44,450
$55,570
$71,970
$91,730
County Attorney's Office median · $59,314
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 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at County Attorney's Office is $64,779, 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 Ramsey County, Minnesota
Senior Legal Secretary is held in 2 Ramsey County, Minnesota departments. In County Attorney's Office, the median of $64,779 ranks #1 of 2.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Senior Legal Secretary role in other Ramsey County, Minnesotadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.