# Legal salary: $178,900–$244,000 a year

Every number below comes from 1,398 tracked live legal postings. No surveys, no self-reports. Listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured November 2026 · n=513 US postings with salary.

## Findings

- The median legal posting offers $178,900–$244,000 a year (n=513, USD).
- 26.6% of the 1,398 live legal postings are remote.
- The middle half of postings (25th–75th percentile) top out between $208,200–$292,583 a year. The median alone hides how wide that spread is.

## Median salary by seniority (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intern | 0 | not enough data |
| Junior | 9 | $140,000–$190,000 |
| Mid-level | 115 | $150,000–$210,000 |
| Senior | 312 | $180,000–$250,000 |
| Lead | 23 | $240,000–$340,000 |

## Remote vs on-site (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remote | 144 | $186,500–$260,500 |
| On-site / hybrid | 369 | $171,300–$230,700 |

## Building AI vs working around it

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Builds AI (AI Level 4) | 0 | not enough data |
| Little AI (AI Level 1) | 455 | $179,375–$243,900 |

## Companies hiring legal roles

- [Amazon](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/amazon) (105)
- [PwC](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/pwc) (55)
- [micro1](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/micro1) (52)
- [Clifford Chance](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/clifford-chance) (30)
- [Thomson Reuters](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/thomson-reuters) (30)
- [Delivery Hero (talabat)](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/delivery-hero-talabat) (26)
- [RELX](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/relx) (25)
- [Capital One](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/capital-one) (22)

## Method

US-dollar postings with both salary bounds listed. This page exists because 513 such postings clear the 50-posting floor Level requires before publishing a dedicated salary page. Below that, the median moves too much between ingestion cycles to be a citable number.

Sample: legal postings at tech companies tracked by Level (1,398 live postings in this category on the measured date). Not the whole labor market. Do not cite as a national average.

All amounts are USD per year. Every median and quartile above excludes hourly-rate postings (a listed maximum under $1,000, almost always an hourly rate, not a salary) and mid-range postings that are neither clearly hourly nor clearly annual (maximum between $1,000 and $10,000). Mixing either into an annual median would understate the real number. The middle 50% of postings top out between $208,200–$292,583 (25th–75th percentile).

Refreshed automatically; this edition is measured November 2026. Small-n slices move a lot. Read the n column first.

## Legal salary questions, answered from the data

**What is the median legal salary?**

Across 513 live US postings for legal roles with a listed USD salary, measured November 2026, the median offer is $178,900–$244,000 a year. This is the tracked catalog, not the whole labor market.

**How many legal roles jobs are remote?**

26.6% of the 513 live postings are marked remote by the employer, measured November 2026.

**Does the AI level of the job change the pay?**

In this sample, 0 postings build AI and 1,224 involve little AI. See the level breakdown below for the median at each level. Measured November 2026.

Source: https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/legal

## Cite this page

Level. https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/legal. Measured November 2026.

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