Delaware·Legal Occupations·SOC 23-2099

Best Legal Support Worker, All Other programs in Delaware, ranked by enrollment

All legal support workers not listed.

3 schools in Delaware run programs that feed this job, graduating 40 people a year. The job pays a median of $81,170 in Delaware across about 290 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

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Graduates / yr
40
in Delaware
Median pay · Delaware
$81,170
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
290
people employed
Schools
3
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
33%
across those schools
Median net price
$17,252
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Delaware that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

2 programs in Delaware that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Delaware (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Delaware page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 22.0302In Delaware
35
87.5%
2$37,542$25,166
2
CIP 22.0000In Delaware
5
12.5%
1$39,558$25,252

Top 3 schools in Delaware

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 0 of the 3 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1Delaware Technical Community College - Terry
Dover, DE Public · 1 feeder programs
21Legal Assistant/Paralegal22%
2Wilmington University
New Castle, DE Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
14Legal Assistant/Paralegal20%$16,588
3Goldey - Beacom College
Wilmington, DE Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
5Legal Studies57%$17,25285%

All 3 schools in Delaware

Every school in Delaware with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Delaware that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
Delaware Technical Community College - TerryDoverPublic211
Wilmington UniversityNew CastlePrivate not-for-profit141
Goldey - Beacom CollegeWilmingtonPrivate not-for-profit51

What legal support workers, all other earn in Delaware

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Delaware
$81,170
Mean annual
$85,140
Jobs in state
290
What the range looks like
10th pct$51,920Median$81,17090th pct$133,340
Versus the national median
+12.6%

U.S. median $72,110. Delaware pays above the national figure.

Job concentration
1.99×

Concentrated here: Delaware employs more of this job per worker than the U.S. average.

Metro areas in Delaware

Dover, DE
$65,560median
30 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
-1.2%
Decline
Openings per year
4,700
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
-600
51,300 → 50,700
Typical entry education
Associate's degree

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Legal Support Workers, All Other page.

How to become a Legal Support Worker, All Other

Typical entry education
Associate's degree

The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in Delaware

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 3 majors mapped to Legal Support Workers, All Other2 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 22.0000Legal Studies
  • 22.0302Legal Assistant/Paralegal
  • 22.0304Court Interpreter(no graduates reported)

Common questions

Answers for people weighing legal support workers, all other programs in Delaware.

What degree do you need to become a Legal Support Worker, All Other?+

Associate's degree is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Legal Assistant/Paralegal, which awarded 35 degrees in Delaware in 2024-25, 87.5% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a Legal Support Worker, All Other?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 2 programs to this occupation. The largest are Legal Support Services, Non-Professional Legal Studies. Together they graduate about 40 people a year in Delaware.

How much do legal support workers, all other earn in Delaware?+

The median is $81,170 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 12.6% above the U.S. median of $72,110. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for legal support workers, all other growing?+

BLS projects a -1.2% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, decline, with roughly 4,700 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Delaware?+

3 institutions in Delaware reported graduates from at least one of the 2 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

Do you need training or experience beyond a degree?+

BLS lists 'None' for related work experience and 'None' for on-the-job training typically needed to reach competency.

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About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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