South Carolina · SOC 23-0000 · Annual, 2025
Legal occupations in South Carolina
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 23-0000 in South Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 17,600 people in South Carolina worked in legal occupations (SOC 23-0000), with an average annual wage of $103,750.
Employment in legal occupations in South Carolina grew 20.9% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 62.6% above the all-occupations average in South Carolina. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 17,600. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for South Carolina are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 17,600Employment, 2025
- $103,750Mean annual wage
- 0.8%Share of South Carolina jobs
- 0.91Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 12,700; 2005 13,200; 2006 13,400; 2007 13,400; 2008 13,200; 2009 12,800; 2010 12,700; 2011 12,500; 2012 12,700; 2013 12,900; 2014 12,900; 2015 13,000; 2016 13,200; 2017 13,400; 2018 13,700; 2019 14,400; 2020 14,600; 2021 15,200; 2022 16,200; 2023 16,900; 2024 17,300; 2025 17,600.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17,606 | $103,750 | 2.1% |
| 2024 | 17,252 | $98,812 | 2.1% |
| 2023 | 16,896 | $92,786 | 4.1% |
| 2022 | 16,228 | $90,667 | 6.4% |
| 2021 | 15,246 | $87,782 | 4.7% |
| 2020 | 14,557 | $85,763 | 1.4% |
| 2019 | 14,363 | $80,534 | 5.1% |
| 2018 | 13,666 | $77,304 | 1.7% |
| 2017 | 13,435 | $75,555 | 1.9% |
| 2016 | 13,184 | $74,518 | 1.5% |
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 South Carolina, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for legal occupations in South Carolina. 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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