Salaries / Paralegals And Legal Assistants / New York
Paralegals And Legal Assistants salaries in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data
Employers filed 101 certified H-1B applications for paralegals and legal assistants in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 50 employers.
The middle half of offers were $65,000 to $89,000 a year, with a median of $81,500: 9% above the national median for this job ($75,000).
The most common wage level was Level IV (44% of filings).
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Wage levels
DOL sets four wage levels by experience. The share of filings at each level, and the minimum the employer must pay for that level here.
| Level | Share of filings | Prevailing wage (minimum) |
|---|---|---|
| Level I (entry) | 9% | — |
| Level II (qualified) | 31% | — |
| Level III (experienced) | 15% | — |
| Level IV (fully competent) | 44% | — |
We don't carry prevailing wages for this occupation yet; the DOL wage search has them.
Who sponsors paralegals and legal assistants here
| Employer | H-1B filings | Median offer | Green card filings (PERM, this job, US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gendelberg Law, PLLC | 12 | $86,000 | 2 |
| Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP | 9 | $225,000 | — |
| Reid & Wise, Llc | 7 | $65,000 | 3 |
| Glacier Law Llp | 4 | $65,000 | — |
| Law Offices of Chen & Associates, P.C. | 4 | $65,000 | — |
| Yao Legal Group Llc | 4 | $77,000 | 1 |
| Zhong Lun Law Firm LLP | 3 | — | — |
| American Chengyi Investment Management Group Inc. | 3 | $87,000 | — |
| Nova Law Group LLC | 3 | $77,000 | — |
| Barst & Mukamal LLP | 3 | $89,500 | — |
| Law Offices Of Ruma Junnatul Pllc | 2 | $77,000 | — |
| Ahmuty Demers & McManus | 2 | — | — |
| Fooksman Law Firm P.C. | 2 | $77,500 | — |
| Reid Wise LLC | 2 | $71,000 | — |
| Grape Law Firm Pllc | 2 | — | 1 |
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Common titles filed under this occupation: Law Clerk, Paralegal, Legal Assistant, Legal Analyst, Paralegals And Legal Assistants, Legal Specialist, Senior Paralegal, Immigration Specialist.
About this data
Offers are the wages employers put on certified Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) for H-1B workers: Certified H-1B LCAs decided July 2025 to June 2026. An LCA is filed before a petition, so not every filing became a job, and pay excludes bonus and stock. Annual pay; hourly offers are multiplied by 2,080. Pages appear only where there were at least 100 filings. Source: DOL disclosure data and OFLC wage data. Not legal or financial advice.