H-1B demand profile: Paralegals and Legal Assistants. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 23-2011-00, employers filed 770 Labor Condition Applications for Paralegals and Legal Assistants positions across 408 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 77.7% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Paralegals and Legal Assistants among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Paralegals and Legal Assistants. Offered wages on LCAs range from $38,000 at the floor to $990,168 at the ceiling, with an average of $78,440. These figures reflect what employers commit to pay sponsored workers, not market averages, each offer must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage (Level I through IV) for the worksite, so the distribution tracks wage-level geography, years of experience, and regional cost of labor more than it does any single employer’s pay philosophy.

Where and who sponsors Paralegals and Legal Assistants. The top sponsor is Clifford Chance US LLP with 21 petitions at an average offered wage of $163,571, followed by Yerezhepova Law, PC, Acme Tricycles Inc, Fish & Richardson PC. Geographically, NY leads with 268 filings (avg $85,519), followed by CA, TX, IL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Paralegals and Legal Assistants actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.