Paralegal salary in Nebraska

Official occupation: 23-2011 Paralegals and Legal Assistants · Reference period May 2025 · Data updated · Confidence 95/100

The median paralegal in Nebraska earns $63,250 a year, within 3% of the United States figure of $62,890.

It ranks 17th of 51 states with a published figure.

Pay is relatively compressed, with the 10th percentile at $44,230 and the 90th at $86,990 (a ratio of 2.0).

With 1,630 jobs and a location quotient of 0.63, the role is less common here than in the United States as a whole.

For context, the median across all occupations in Nebraska is $48,980, so this role pays 1.3 times the local typical wage.

Published figures

Published and derived pay figures
MeasureNebraskaNational
Median annual pay Observed$63,250United States: $62,890
Mean annual pay Observed$63,480United States: $69,700
10th percentile Observed$44,230United States: $44,740
25th percentile Observed$49,390United States: $50,340
75th percentile Observed$73,940United States: $80,080
90th percentile Observed$86,990United States: $101,500
Median hourly pay Observed$30.41United States: $30.24
Employment (jobs) Observed1,630
Jobs per 1,000 employees Observed1.589
Location quotient Observed0.63
Difference from United States median ($62,890) Derived+1%
Rank among 51 states Derived17
Ratio to Nebraska all-occupation median ($48,980) Derived1.29×
90th / 10th percentile ratio Derived1.97

Nearby in the ranking

  1. 15. Illinois$63,670
  2. 16. Pennsylvania$63,370
  3. 17. Nebraska$63,250
  4. 18. Utah$63,220
  5. 19. Delaware$63,110

Largest cities in Nebraska: Omaha, Lincoln, Bellevue, Grand Island, Kearney (GeoNames). Figures are for the whole state, not individual cities.

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Source, method and data quality

  • Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 (Public domain (U.S. Government work)). Reference period: May 2025. Updates: Yearly (spring release).
  • Observed figures are copied from the published table without adjustment. Derived figures (rankings, ratios and differences) are calculated by us from those observed figures. No figure on this page is modeled or estimated.
  • Relative standard error (PRSE) published per estimate.
  • Confidence score: 95/100. Based on the published sampling error and job count. We only publish region pages scoring 60 or more that have at least 6 observed figures.
  • Place hierarchy from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Data last updated: .
  • Full method: methodology.