Counted October 19, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Contracts Manager: $163K median posted pay.
From 17 salary bands employers posted on 29 open contracts manager roles in legal. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management | 29 | $163K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Anduril Industries | 5 | — |
| Planet | 3 | — |
| True Anomaly | 2 | — |
| Fastly | 2 | — |
| Shield AI | 2 | — |
| Harvey | 1 | — |
| Element Biosciences | 1 | — |
| General Matter | 1 | — |
| BeyondTrust | 1 | — |
| Software Technology Inc | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open contracts manager roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Contract Administration | 17 | — |
| Data Privacy | 13 | — |
| Procurement | 13 | — |
| Contract Drafting | 9 | — |
| Risk Management | 8 | — |
| Intellectual Property | 7 | — |
| Contract Negotiation | 7 | — |
| GAAP Compliance | 6 | — |
| Cost Accounting | 6 | — |
| Customer Retention | 5 | — |
Where the work is
10% of these roles are remote.
- Remote10%3 roles
- Hybrid7%2 roles
- On site76%22 roles
- Not stated7%2 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 29 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 17 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Contracts Manager (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.