What Does a Legal Secretary Earn?

Gordon Yates 2002-03 Survey results for secretaries by type.

Sector Junior Team/manager

Accountancy £16,475 £19,000
Advertising £16,844 £22,938
Commercial £14,423 £18,750
Computing £16,286 £22,500
Consultancies £17,679 £20,875
Financial services £17,502 £22,383
Legal £15,950 £18,300
Marketing £17,159 £19,806
Publishing £15,392 £19.417
TV, music, film £16,144 £20,208

Source: 'The Administrative, Secretarial and Support Staff Survey 2002-2003', published by Gordon Yates in association with The Guardian.

Other figures of interest for Hayes:

Legal secretaries with at least two years' experience were paid £21,000 in central London, £16,000 in outer London, and a UK average of £15,429