Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
General Attorney: $136K median posted pay.
From 74 salary bands employers posted on 74 open general attorney roles in legal. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
No level is named often enough in these postings to build a ladder.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Customs and Border Protection | 34 | — |
| Federal Trade Commission | 12 | — |
| Office of General Counsel | 4 | — |
| Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency | 4 | — |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | 3 | — |
| Office of the Secretary | 3 | — |
| Defense Information Systems Agency | 3 | — |
| Patent and Trademark Office | 3 | — |
| Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 3 | — |
| Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation | 2 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open general attorney roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Legal Research | 74 | — |
| Law Enforcement | 4 | — |
| Intellectual Property | 3 | — |
| Procurement | 1 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site46%34 roles
- Not stated54%40 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 74 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 74 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior General 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.