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Number of employees in legal occupations in the U.S. by category 2021

Published by Statista Research Department, Jul 6, 2022
As of May 2021, approximately 1.18 million workers were employed in legal occupations in the United States. The large majority of them were lawyers (681,010), followed by legal support workers (433,380) and paralegals and legal assistants (336,250).

Number of employees in legal occupations in the United States as of May 2021, by category

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Release date

March 2022

Region

United States

Survey time period

May 2022

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