Six Figure Work

Legal jobs with a published base of $100K+

Legal jobs here are mostly in-house: corporate counsel, product and privacy counsel, patent counsel and general counsel roles at software and AI companies, plus attorney advisors across federal agencies. A smaller group comes from law firms and from regulatory affairs teams at drug and device makers.

Published pay at a glance

1,603 open postings from 565 employers, as of .

Median published starting base
$161,200
Median midpoint of published ranges
$192,500
Half of postings publish a starting base between
$130K and $200K
Median published range width
$57,400
Publish a starting base of $150K+
62%
Publish a starting base of $200K+
28%
Published starting base, number of postings in each range
  1. $100K - $125K319
  2. $125K - $150K296
  3. $150K - $175K305
  4. $175K - $200K233
  5. $200K - $225K182
  6. $225K - $250K102
  7. $250K - $275K84
  8. $275K - $300K35
  9. $300K - $325K19
  10. $325K - $350K15
  11. $350K - $375K9
  12. $375K - $400K2
  13. $400K+2

Because we list only ranges that start at $100K or more, these figures describe six-figure postings, not the whole job market.

New this week

431 of these postings were first seen by us in the last 7 days.

The 50 newest of 1,603 jobs

Newest first, by when we first saw the job. Each card shows the employer-published base range and links to the source.

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Who publishes the highest base here

Employers ranked by median published starting base across their open postings here. Employers need at least 3 postings to be listed.

EmployerOpen postingsMedian published starting base
Fireworks AI6$355K
OpenAI12$305K
fal3$300K
Firecrawl3$294K
Clifford Chance4$285K
Forus3$270K
Anthropic12$267,500
C3 AI3$252K
Greenberg Traurig8$250K
Polymarket7$250K

Where these jobs are

Most postings by state: California (417), New York (254), Washington, DC (108), Texas (71), Virginia (69), Massachusetts (61), Washington (61), Illinois (58), New Jersey (53), Maryland (40).

Of the 31% of postings that state a workplace: 22% remote, 51% hybrid, 27% on-site. 69% of postings do not state a workplace, so these shares describe only the postings that do.

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How to read these figures

Figures are employer-published annual base ranges in USD for postings open at last check. They are not offers and not total compensation, and they do not show what anyone is paid. Because we list only ranges that start at $100K or more, these figures describe six-figure postings, not the whole job market. Read the methodology.