Counted October 19, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Associate Counsel: $160K median posted pay.
From 19 salary bands employers posted on 31 open associate counsel roles in legal. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | — (0 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 |
|---|---|---|
| urbancompass | 3 | — |
| Syneoshealth | 2 | — |
| Bcbsnc | 2 | — |
| Lyft | 2 | — |
| OpenTable | 2 | — |
| CompuNet, Inc. | 1 | — |
| Atrium Hospitality | 1 | — |
| Circle Logistics | 1 | — |
| Brightcore Energy | 1 | — |
| Clear Street | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open associate counsel roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Legal Research | 17 | — |
| Intellectual Property | 9 | — |
| Investigation | 9 | — |
| Procurement | 7 | — |
| Risk Management | 7 | — |
| Data Privacy | 7 | — |
| Contract Administration | 6 | — |
| Customer Service | 6 | — |
| Continuous Improvement | 5 | — |
| Contract Drafting | 4 | — |
Where the work is
19% of these roles are remote.
- Remote19%6 roles
- Hybrid13%4 roles
- On site65%20 roles
- Not stated3%1 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 31 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 19 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Associate Counsel (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.