Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Trial Attorney: $159K median posted pay.
From 34 salary bands employers posted on 44 open trial attorney roles in legal. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 12 | — (2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Offices, Boards and Divisions | 22 | — |
| Allstate | 11 | — |
| Commodity Futures Trading Commission | 2 | — |
| Federal Communications Commission | 2 | — |
| Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | 2 | — |
| Office of the Solicitor | 1 | — |
| Washington Headquarters Services | 1 | — |
| National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | 1 | — |
| Auto Club Group (ACG) | 1 | — |
| Office of Personnel Management | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open trial attorney roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Legal Research | 44 | — |
| Investigation | 15 | — |
| Deposition Preparation | 12 | — |
| Regulatory Compliance | 11 | — |
| Risk Management | 11 | — |
| Paralegal Support | 11 | — |
| Legal Writing | 7 | — |
| Case Management | 6 | — |
| Litigation Support | 3 | — |
| Stakeholder Management | 3 | — |
Where the work is
25% of these roles are remote.
- Remote25%11 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site39%17 roles
- Not stated36%16 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 44 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 34 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Trial 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.