Massachusetts · SOC 23-0000 · Annual, 2025
Legal occupations in Massachusetts
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 23-0000 in Massachusetts, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 33,400 people in Massachusetts worked in legal occupations (SOC 23-0000), with an average annual wage of $202,270.
Employment in legal occupations in Massachusetts grew 12.3% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 102.6% above the all-occupations average in Massachusetts. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 33,400. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for Massachusetts are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 33,400Employment, 2025
- $202,270Mean annual wage
- 0.9%Share of Massachusetts jobs
- 1.10Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 28,500; 2005 28,600; 2006 28,700; 2007 28,900; 2008 28,900; 2009 27,800; 2010 27,900; 2011 27,600; 2012 27,800; 2013 27,900; 2014 27,700; 2015 27,700; 2016 28,000; 2017 28,000; 2018 29,000; 2019 29,500; 2020 29,800; 2021 30,700; 2022 31,700; 2023 32,100; 2024 33,200; 2025 33,400.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33,431 | $202,271 | 0.8% |
| 2024 | 33,174 | $191,719 | 3.4% |
| 2023 | 32,088 | $183,098 | 1.3% |
| 2022 | 31,678 | $174,323 | 3.3% |
| 2021 | 30,661 | $164,865 | 3.0% |
| 2020 | 29,760 | $155,391 | 0.9% |
| 2019 | 29,501 | $148,409 | 1.9% |
| 2018 | 28,961 | $147,324 | 3.4% |
| 2017 | 28,020 | $139,784 | 0.1% |
| 2016 | 27,998 | $138,147 | 1.1% |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
Notes
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Legal occupations in Massachusetts, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for legal occupations in Massachusetts. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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