Legal Salaries (2025)
✓ Sourced directly from ONS ASHE & BLS OES · Checked for accuracy at every rebuild · First published: 2026-08-25 · Last updated: 2026-10-25
✓ ONS & BLS Verified Rates — Updated July 2026
ONS ASHE 2025 (provisional) · BLS OES May 202512 job titles, sorted by UK median salary.
Legal pay at a glance
In the UK, the 5 legal occupations with ONS data have median pay ranging from £24,263 (Legal Secretaries) to £53,314 (Solicitors and Lawyers); the average of those medians is about £35,618. In the US, the 11 occupations with BLS data range from $55,570 (Legal Secretaries) to $159,670 (Legal Professionals N.E.C.), averaging about $103,271. These are unweighted averages of the occupation medians listed below, not official category-wide figures, and UK and US figures are never converted or combined.
| Job title | UK median | US median |
|---|---|---|
| Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates (US) | — | $153,990 |
| Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers (US) | — | $117,860 |
| Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators (US) | — | $75,530 |
| Legal Support Workers, All Other (US) | — | $72,110 |
| Judicial Law Clerks (US) | — | $64,920 |
| Paralegals and Legal Assistants (US) | — | $62,890 |
| Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers (US) | — | $58,650 |
| Solicitors and Lawyers | £53,314 | $159,670 |
| Barristers and Judges | £34,253 | $155,120 |
| Legal Professionals N.E.C. | £33,822 | $159,670 |
| Legal Associate Professionals | £32,438 | — |
| Legal Secretaries | £24,263 | $55,570 |
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