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Paralegal Jobs in Chicago

Live jobs27
Added in 7 days0Posted in the last 7 days, where the advert gives a date
Median pay$70,000 to $90,000Advertised salary: median of the 11 adverts that state annual pay, apprenticeships not included
Pay range

What Paralegal pays in Chicago

In context

Paralegal pay across cities

Chicago is 6 of 6 on the middle of the median advertised range for Paralegal, among the biggest cities TUNAI tracks for this role.

CityMedian advertised payLive jobs
San Francisco$105,000 to $155,00028
New York$95,500 to $120,00064
Los Angeles$90,000 to $125,00034
Seattle$78,965 to $119,33014
Dallas$90,019 to $107,50022
Chicago$70,000 to $90,00027
Top skills

Most required skills

The skills that appear most in these adverts, as a share of the adverts.

  1. Paralegal100%
  2. Excel22%
  3. Microsoft Office22%
  4. Litigation19%
  5. Legal Research11%

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How this page is made: counted from the live adverts TUNAI reads on employers’ own careers sites, read on 6 Nov 2026 and recounted every night. Pay is the median of the adverts that state a yearly figure, never a guess. The method.