Job prospects Administrative Assistant - Legal in Manitoba

Explore current and future job prospects for people working as an "administrative assistant - legal" in Manitoba or across Canada.

Job opportunities in Manitoba

The recent trends from the past 3 years were updated on July 25, 2025. The job outlooks over the next 3 years were updated on December 10, 2025.

Prospects over the next 3 years

The employment outlook will be Moderate for legal administrative assistants (NOC 13111) in Manitoba for the 2025-2027 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment growth will lead to a few new positions.
• Several positions will become available due to retirements.
• There are a moderate number of unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.

• Demand for this occupation is driven by law firm caseloads and specialization in fields like technology, privacy, and regulatory compliance and shifting more administrative tasks, client coordination, and document management from lawyers to administrative assistants.
• Key trends for this occupation include the use of case management software, e-filing and cloud-based document management systems, and artificial intelligence (AI) driven research tools, such as e-discovery.
• Jobs are concentrated in the Winnipeg, Southeast and Interlake regions.

Here are some key facts about legal administrative assistants in Manitoba:

• Approximately 1,800 people work in this occupation.
• Legal administrative assistants mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Legal services (NAICS 5411): 74%
  • Real Estate and rental and leasing (NAICS 53): 11%
  • Provincial and territorial public administration (NAICS 912): 6%
• The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
  • Full-time workers: 87% compared to 81% for all occupations
  • Part-time workers: 13% compared to 19% for all occupations
• 76% of legal administrative assistants work all year, while 24% work only part of the year, compared to 65% and 35% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 46 weeks compared to 43 weeks for all occupations.
• Less than 5% of legal administrative assistants are self-employed compared to an average of 12% for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: less than 5% compared to 53% for all occupations
  • Women: more than 95% compared to 47% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: less than 5% compared to 12% for all occupations
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 26% compared to 31% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: 32% compared to 12% for all occupations
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: 24% compared to 17% for all occupations
  • bachelor's degree: 13% compared to 20% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: less than 5% compared to 8% for all occupations

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