U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Occupational Employment Statistics

1999 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates

Legal Occupations

These estimates are calculated with data collected from employers in all industry divisions in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas in every State and the District of Columbia.

Click on the SOC Code Number to view that occupation's definition, additional wage estimates, and relative standard error (RSE) estimates.

			Wage Estimates
SOC Code Number	Occupation Title	Employment	Median Hourly	Mean Hourly	Mean Annual (1)	Mean RSE
23-0000	Legal Occupations	858,320	$26.50	$32.10	$66,780	6.3 %
23-1011	Lawyers	464,250	$42.81	$43.44	$90,360	5.4 %
23-1021	Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers	27,250	$21.23	$24.80	$51,580	0.5 %
23-1022	Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators	6,260	$25.49	$33.80	$70,310	24.6 %
23-1023	Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates	23,150	$32.72	$32.29	$67,150	2.9 %
23-2011	Paralegals and Legal Assistants	175,870	$16.39	$17.57	$36,550	2.9 %
23-2091	Court Reporters	17,460	$17.78	$18.29	$38,040	3.2 %
23-2092	Law Clerks (3)	26,060	$12.94	$14.08	$29,280	1.9 %
23-2093	Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers (3)	38,730	$13.38	$14.84	$30,880	0.9 %

About 1999 National, State, and Metropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates

Estimates for residual, "All Other", occupations are not available.

(1) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a "year-round, full-time" hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published, the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey data.

(3) = Wage rates are calculated using three years of data: 1997, 1998, and 1999.

The relative standard error (RSE) is a measure of the reliability of a survey statistic. The smaller the relative standard error, the more precise the estimate.

National OES estimates by SOC major group