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Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings

Compliance Officer: $186K median posted pay.

From 14 salary bands employers posted on 40 open compliance officer roles in legal. Never an estimate.

Median posted band$186K14 posted a band
Middle half$130K–$231K25th to 75th percentile
Open roles4018 posted in 30 days
Entry level0asking no prior experience
Remote13%as the postings state it

The ladder, by level

What each rung pays.

LevelOpen rolesMedian posted bandMiddle half
Management9— (2 of 8 bands)—
Senior6— (5 of 8 bands)—
Principal1— (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.

EmployerOpen rolesEntry level
verifone3—
Nb2—
Centene2—
IMC1—
tastylive1—
Tamus (System Wide External)1—
iCapital1—
Manulife and John Hancock1—
Robinhood1—
Keyrock1—

Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open compliance officer roles tonight.

The skills, as the postings name them

What these postings ask for.

SkillPostingsAt entry
Investigation18—
Anti Money Laundering15—
Risk Management15—
Due Diligence13—
Regulatory Compliance10—
Auditing5—
Continuous Improvement5—
Nonconformance Handling5—
Spreadsheet Analysis3—
Experimentation3—

Where the work is

13% of these roles are remote.

  • Remote13%5 roles
  • Hybrid5%2 roles
  • On site68%27 roles
  • Not stated15%6 roles

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How this was counted

Every figure is counted from 40 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 14 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Compliance Officer (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.