Compared with the local labor market
Legal Assistant pay vs. Florida
Across all employers in Florida, the median wage for Paralegals and Legal Assistants — about 40,950 people — is $61,000. Justice Administrative Commission pays a median base salary of $44,215 for this role, 28% below that figure — about the 19th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Justice Administrative Commission sits in the local pay range
$38,830
$48,230
$61,000
$75,780
$83,410
Justice Administrative Commission median · $44,215
The bar is the range of annual wages for Paralegals and Legal Assistants across every employer in Florida, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Justice Administrative Commission’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. Justice Administrative Commission’s median base salary is 30% below that national figure, below the 10th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$44,740
$50,340
$62,890
$80,080
$101,500
Justice Administrative Commission median · $44,215
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 Florida range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 1,536 of 1,540 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 Justice Administrative Commission is $44,183, 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.