Paralegals and Legal Assistants
Education
Required Level of Education
- Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) = 50.23%
- Bachelor's Degree = 34.28%
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production) = 7.25%
- Post-Baccalaureate Certificate - awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Baccalaureate degree but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees carrying the title of Master. = 4.82%
- High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED) = 3.42%
Related Work Experience
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 23.13%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 20.32%
- None = 18.04%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 17.41%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 9.63%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 7.94%
- Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years = 2.41%
- Over 8 years, up to and including 10 years = 1.12%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- None = 39.10%
- Up to and including 1 month = 32.20%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 15.64%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 5.76%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 3.01%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 2.59%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 1.69%
On-the-Job Training
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 53.67%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 24.99%
- None or short demonstration = 11.36%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 3.90%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 3.49%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 2.59%
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
