Georgia / Court of Appeals / Legal Assistant (Jud)

Job-title file

Legal Assistant (Jud)

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

63 employees hold this title in Court of Appeals. Median total compensation for the role is $128,283, above the department median of $125,405.

Employees: 63
Total payroll: $7.6M
Role median: $128,283
Agency median: $125,405
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$28,269$138,211+

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

How total compensation varies among the 63 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 Assistant (Jud) pay vs. Georgia

Across all employers in Georgia, the median wage for Paralegals and Legal Assistants — about 14,160 people — is $62,400. Court of Appeals pays a median base salary of $128,283 for this role, 106% above that figure — above the 90th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Court of Appeals sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$39,530

$48,940

$62,400

$81,120

$101,210

Court of Appeals median · $128,283

The bar is the range of annual wages for Paralegals and Legal Assistants across every employer in Georgia, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Court of Appeals’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. Court of Appeals’s median base salary is 104% above that national figure, above the 90th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$44,740

$50,340

$62,890

$80,080

$101,500

Court of Appeals median · $128,283

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 Georgia range relative to the national one.

Median total compensation for this role at Court of Appeals is $128,283, 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 Assistant beyond Georgia

This role is reported in 19 jurisdictions. In Georgia, the median of $128,283 ranks #2 of 19. See Legal Assistant across all of Georgia →

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

City and County of San Francisco

$165,860 · 132

$125,902 · 18

$87,537 · 7

$81,494 · 16

$67,448 · 569

$66,924 · 61

City of Phoenix, Arizona

$65,621 · 35

Utah

$60,942 · 17

Median total compensation for comparable Legal Assistantroles 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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