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Cost to hire a paralegal in Georgia

Georgia's 1% small business status excludes legal services, which probably puts a paralegal on the general regime at up to 20% of the invoice. At $670 a month you pay $719 as a contractor either way; the person keeps at least $536, and an employer of record with that take-home costs $1,300. A US paralegal at the BLS median costs 9.4 times as much.

$719contractor
$536take-home
$1,300EOR
$6,762US hire

Small business status likely excludes this activity, so the tax shown is the general regime's upper bound. You pay $719 a month as a contractor or $1,300 through an EOR. Contractor tax $134 a month. EOR: salary $687 for the same take-home, employer items $14, provider from $599.

Full comparator

Starting pay for paralegals in Georgia

Geostat publishes earnings by occupation group, not by job title1. Paralegals sit in group 34 Legal, Social, Cultural and Related Associate Professionals, whose employees averaged GEL 1,726.7 a month in 2025, about $666 at the 2026-11-12 rate2. That is 20% below the all-occupation average of GEL 2,165.2, and 43% more than in 2021 (GEL 1,209.3): the slowest rise of the 9 groups we load from that table.

A paralegal as a contractor in Georgia

Small business status excludes legal services3, so a Georgian paralegal probably cannot use its 1% rate; the Revenue Service decides by registered activity. The figures here use the general regime instead4: up to $134 of a $670 invoice (20% of the whole invoice; deductible expenses lower it), so the paralegal keeps at least $536. If the Revenue Service did accept small business status, the tax would be $7 and the take-home $663.

Paralegal, Georgia, $670 a month
ItemGEL a monthUSD
Personal income tax, up to (20% of the whole invoice)GEL 348$134
Tax and contributions$134

A paralegal employed through an EOR

To keep $536 as an employee, the paralegal needs a gross salary of $687, 3% above the invoice: employee deductions take 22.0% of pay in Georgia54. The employer then adds $14, mostly pension contribution (employer).

Paralegal employed in Georgia, $687 a month
GEL a monthUSD
Gross salaryGEL 1,782$687
Employee deductionsGEL 392$151
Employer itemsGEL 36$14
Take-home$536

With a provider from $599 a month at list price, the EOR route costs $6,971 a year more than the contractor route for this paralegal.

Georgia against the other three for paralegals

Georgia takes the most tax from a paralegal's invoice of the 3 countries compared: the person keeps 80.0%, where Ukraine leaves 88.0%.

We do not rank the four countries on cost for paralegals: Armenia and Ukraine publish no pay by occupation, so their starting pay is the national average, a placeholder. Compare them at one pay in the calculator above.

Paralegals hired at home

Paralegals hired locally, against $719 a month for a paralegal in Georgia
MarketMedian pay a monthEmployer cost a month× the Georgian route
United States67$5,241$6,7629.4×
United Kingdom891011$4,152$4,7946.7×
Canada1211$4,099wage only5.7×
Australia131411$5,272$5,8898.2×

By the gap to a US hire, paralegals rank 2 of 17 roles in Georgia (9.4×); next to them are project coordinators (11.5×) and accountants (9.4×).

What the statistics call paralegals

Which official occupation the paralegal figures come from
StatisticsCodeOccupation as published
US, BLS (SOC 2018)23-2011Paralegals and Legal Assistants
UK, ONS (SOC 2020)3520Legal associate professionals
Canada, ESDC (NOC 2021)42200Paralegals and related occupations
Australia, ABS (ANZSCO)5992Court and legal clerks
ISCO-08 (ILO), used for Georgia3411unit group in «Legal, Social, Cultural and Related Associate Professionals»

ANZSCO has no paralegal group. Court and legal clerks, which include law clerks, are the closest.

In Canada it runs from C$26.00 an hour in Prince Edward Island to C$39.58 in British Columbia.

Paralegals elsewhere

Not tax or legal advice: rates depend on the person’s registration and activity. Corrections: hello@silkstaff.com.

Sources

14 sources, with links
  1. Geostat: average monthly nominal earnings of employees by occupation (ISCO-08), 2021 and 2025, xlsx: geostat.ge
  2. National Bank of Georgia, official exchange rate 2026-11-12: nbg.gov.ge
  3. Andersen Georgia: What is Georgia's Small-Business Status: ge.andersen.com
  4. PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries, Georgia, Individual - Taxes on personal income: taxsummaries.pwc.com
  5. PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries, Georgia, Individual - Other taxes (pension contributions): taxsummaries.pwc.com
  6. BLS OEWS May 2025, 23-2011: bls.gov
  7. BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, private industry, June 2026: bls.gov
  8. ONS, ASHE Table 14 (occupation), 2026 provisional: ons.gov.uk
  9. GOV.UK, rates and thresholds for employers 2026 to 2027: gov.uk
  10. GOV.UK, workplace pensions: what you, your employer and the government pay: gov.uk
  11. ECB euro reference rates, 2026-11-03: ecb.europa.eu
  12. ESDC Job Bank, wages by occupation and economic region, 2025 release: open.canada.ca
  13. ABS, Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia, May 2025, data cubes 11, 12 and 13: abs.gov.au
  14. ATO, super guarantee rates: ato.gov.au

How these pages are built: methodology and data sources. Last updated 2026-11-12.