Counted October 19, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Associate Attorney: $165K median posted pay.
From 39 salary bands employers posted on 59 open associate attorney roles in legal. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 52 | $163K | — |
| Senior | 7 | — (7 of 8 bands) | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Bremer Whyte Brown & O'Meara, LLP | 12 | — |
| Clydeco | 12 | — |
| Abramson Labor Group | 10 | — |
| Carr Allison | 9 | — |
| Coastal Wave Recruiting | 4 | — |
| Build My Great Team | 4 | — |
| Forrest Johnson | 3 | — |
| Auto Club Group (ACG) | 1 | — |
| Cogent Talent Solutions | 1 | — |
| Allora | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open associate attorney roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Legal Research | 30 | — |
| Deposition Preparation | 22 | — |
| Litigation Support | 8 | — |
| Mediation | 5 | — |
| Paralegal Support | 5 | — |
| Billing | 5 | — |
| E-Discovery | 3 | — |
| Customer Service | 3 | — |
| Continuous Improvement | 2 | — |
| Triage | 2 | — |
Where the work is
14% of these roles are remote.
- Remote14%8 roles
- Hybrid7%4 roles
- On site75%44 roles
- Not stated5%3 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 59 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 19, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 39 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Associate Attorney (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in legal, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.