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Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants pay in Arizona and District of Columbia
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants is $55,120 per year in Arizona. It is $99,280 per year in District of Columbia. Arizona is 44.5% below District of Columbia on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 43-6012 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 2,600 wage and salary jobs in Arizona and 1,940 in District of Columbia. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.