# Legal salary: $200,000–$264,000 a year

Every number below comes from 357 tracked live legal postings. No surveys, no self-reports — listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured September 2026 · n=205 US postings with salary.

## Findings

- The median legal posting offers $200,000–$264,000 a year (n=205, USD).
- 48.2% of the 357 live legal postings are remote.
- The middle half of postings (25th–75th percentile) top out between $224,000–$300,000 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 | 3 | $202,000–$312,000 |
| Mid-level | 47 | $170,000–$230,000 |
| Senior | 129 | $200,000–$270,000 |
| Lead | 10 | $250,000–$298,950 |

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

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remote | 93 | $199,800–$255,000 |
| On-site / hybrid | 112 | $200,000–$270,000 |

## Building AI vs working around it

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Level 4 — Build AI systems | 0 | not enough data |
| Level 1 — Work around AI | 179 | $200,000–$264,000 |

## Companies hiring legal roles

- [Brex](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/brex) (16)
- [Airwallex](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/airwallex) (12)
- [Harvey](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/harvey) (12)
- [Adobe](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/adobe) (10)
- [Adyen](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/adyen) (10)
- [Anthropic](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/anthropic) (10)
- [Databricks](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/databricks) (9)
- [OpenAI](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/openai) (9)

## Method

US-dollar postings with both salary bounds listed. This page exists because 205 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 (357 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 Not the whole labor market — do not cite as a national average.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 $224,000–$300,000 (25th–75th percentile).

Refreshed automatically; this edition is measured September 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 205 live US postings for legal roles with a listed USD salary, measured September 2026, the median offer is $200,000–$264,000 a year. This is the tracked catalog, not the whole labor market.

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

48.2% of the 205 live postings are marked remote by the employer, measured September 2026.

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

In this sample, 0 postings are Level 4 (building AI systems) and 317 are Level 1 (AI is not the work). See the AI level breakdown below for the median in each band. Measured September 2026.

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