Career Explorer Law
Changing shape
Legal support workers, all other
All legal support workers not listed separately.
Among the careers AI is changing fastest: more resilient than 16% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it very high), and US jobs are projected to change by -0.3% by 2035, expected to shrink. The work leans on ethical judgement.
AI can do many of the tasks, and hiring is expected to grow slower than average or to shrink. The job is likely to change, so build the human parts of it.
- Median pay (2025)
- $72,110
- Job growth to 2035
- -0.3%
- Openings a year
- 4,700
- People doing it (2025)
- 50,200
- Usual route in
- Associate's degree
What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects
- Fewer of these jobs, as law firms outsource an increasing amount of back office, administrative, and non-lawyer functions as a way to streamline operations and lower costs for clients.
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliatorsGrows with AI, Index 21, +4.7%
- Financial examinersGrows with AI, Index 30, +9.3%
- Buyers and purchasing agentsGrows with AI, Index 41, +6.0%
- Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialistsGrows with AI, Index 27, +6.0%
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.