Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Legal Counsel: $201K median posted pay.
From 70 salary bands employers posted on 171 open legal counsel roles in legal. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 52 | $210K | — |
| Principal | 3 | — (2 of 8 bands) | — |
| Junior | 2 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
| Mid | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Anduril Industries | 8 | — |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | 8 | — |
| Axiom Talent Platform | 5 | — |
| Ntrs | 4 | — |
| Sec | 4 | — |
| Wk | 4 | — |
| Medtronic (Redeploymentmedtroniccareers) | 4 | — |
| Danaher | 3 | — |
| Bosch Group | 3 | — |
| IMC | 3 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open legal counsel roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Legal Research | 92 | — |
| Data Privacy | 60 | — |
| Procurement | 50 | — |
| Risk Management | 49 | — |
| Intellectual Property | 49 | — |
| Mergers and Acquisitions | 36 | — |
| Investigation | 31 | — |
| Corporate Governance | 27 | — |
| Due Diligence | 26 | — |
| Contract Drafting | 21 | — |
Where the work is
9% of these roles are remote.
- Remote9%16 roles
- Hybrid13%22 roles
- On site61%105 roles
- Not stated16%28 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 171 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 70 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Legal 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.