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Legal Occupations
Across all 8 of this group's occupations with published Colorado employment, 26,750 Coloradans work in legal occupations. Weighted by those published jobs, the group's mean exposure score is 46.6 of 100, and 96.2% of the jobs are in occupations where most or a large minority of tasks overlap with AI capabilities assessed in 2023.
Lawyers; Paralegals and Legal Assistants; Legal Support Workers, All Other — the largest of this group's 8 occupations in Colorado.
Every statewide figure on this page is computed directly on published BLS OEWS Colorado state data — a different basis from the county estimates elsewhere on this site, which model occupation mixes from industry mix. The one county table below is labeled accordingly.
- Published CO employment
- 26,750 across all 8 occupations · OEWS 2025
- Employment-weighted mean score
- 46.6 0–100 scale · published statewide data only
- High + substantial share
- 96.2% of the group's published jobs · score ≥ 45 of 100
- CO median wages
- $66,660–$198,790 range across the 8 occupations with published medians · annual, 2025
Plate I
Tier mix within the group
How this group's 8 occupations — and its 26,750 published Colorado jobs — split across the four task-overlap tiers (cuts at 60/45/30 on the 0–100 score scale).
| Tier | Occupations | Published CO jobs | Share of published jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| high overlap | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| substantial overlap | 4 | 25,740 | 96.2% |
| some overlap | 3 | 390 | 1.5% |
| little overlap | 1 | 620 | 2.3% |
Plate II
The eight largest occupations in this group
| Occupation | Tier | Score | CO jobs | CO median wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawyers | substantial overlap | 47.5 | 16,720 | $168,520 |
| Paralegals and Legal Assistants | substantial overlap | 45.0 | 5,620 | $78,190 |
| Legal Support Workers, All Other | substantial overlap | 46.3 | 2,000 | $66,660 |
| Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers | substantial overlap | 55.4 | 1,400 | $77,600 |
| Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates | little overlap | 25.0 | 620 | $198,790 |
| Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers | some overlap | 34.6 | 220 | $121,410 |
| Judicial Law Clerks | some overlap | 44.8 | 140 | $67,230 |
| Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators | some overlap | 37.1 | 30 | $82,590 |
Plate III
Where this work concentrates
The six counties where this group is the largest share of local jobs. These county figures are estimates — modeled from each county's industry mix, not published counts (how county estimates are built) — and a share of a small county's job base can rank above a metro county's much larger absolute employment.
| County | Est. share of county jobs | Est. group jobs | Data quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver | 1.6% | 8,956 | Full |
| Kiowa | 1.2% | 6 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Crowley | 1.1% | 12 | Heavily imputed estimate |
| Dolores | 1.1% | 6 | Heavily imputed estimate |
| Hinsdale | 1.1% | 3 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Lincoln | 1.0% | 22 | Partially imputed estimate |