Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $203,000 |
| Median | $234,000 |
| 75th percentile | $265,000 |
| Lowest listing | $100,000 |
| Highest listing | $437,000 |
| Listings counted | 214 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Senior | 78 | $246,000 |
| Lead | 10 | $239,000 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Orion Placement | 35 | $195,000 |
| Anthropic | 12 | $300,000 |
| OpenAI | 11 | $348,000 |
| Anduril Industries | 9 | $256,000 |
| SpaceX | 8 | $248,000 |
| True Talent Solutions Partners | 6 | $263,000 |
| Databricks | 6 | $261,000 |
| Harvey | 6 | $246,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 201 | $234,000 | $203,000 to $266,000 |
Veeam is seeking an experienced, commercially minded Senior Counsel, Product & Privacy to join our global Legal team.
The team includes professionals from diverse legal fields—technology, AI, infrastructure, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation—who collaborate closely with colleagues across the company.
True Talent Solutions PartnersNew · 1d ago
Join an established bankruptcy and commercial litigation practice as a debtor-side bankruptcy litigator. You will lead complex disputes and help steward an active practice and client relationships through a senior partner transition.
True Talent Solutions Partners · 3d ago
A collaborative, impact-focused boutique law firm is seeking a senior debt finance attorney to lead bespoke secured lending and private credit transactions. This role offers significant autonomy and an opportunity to help shape and grow the firm's debt practice.
Draft, file, and prosecute U.S. patent applications before the USPTO. Independently manage patent prosecution matters, including office action responses and patent portfolio development.
We are seeking a commercially minded Senior Legal Counsel to join our growing legal team and support the company's global sales organisation.
We're seeking a motivated Commercial Litigation Associate Attorney to join our New York team and help clients navigate sophisticated legal disputes. Represent clients in complex commercial litigation, business disputes, breach of contract cases, and related matters.
Orion Placement · 10d ago
Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements supporting financial services and fintech transactions. Advise banks, fintech companies, and payment processors on strategic partnerships and innovative financial products.
AI has the power to dramatically accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and the development of healthcare interventions. Alongside the models and tools we build for scientists, Anthropic’s life science research teams now run their own wet lab experiments.
Hardware is becoming critical to how AI gets built, and the legal questions are as new as the technology. We're hiring a Commercial Counsel, Hardware to help Anthropic's product teams move fast, build safely, and get the legal calls right.
We are seeking an experienced and strategic transactional attorney to join the IP team within our growing legal department. In this role, you will be responsible for the IP side of Anthropic's transactions, partnering with the M&A and commercial counsel who lead each deal.
Anthropic is seeking a Regulatory Counsel to lead our legal work on AI regulation in the United States and to support our global AI regulatory posture.
We are seeking an experienced IP Counsel to help protect some of the world's fastest-growing technology brands.
Location : We're hiring for this role locally to our offices based in Seattle or Bellevue, San Francisco, or Mountain View. This will be a hybrid role with in-office expectations.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
Advising research and product teams on regulatory requirements, transparency obligations, and development standards. Helping build and run compliance programs for AI technologies under global and state frameworks.
NVIDIA · 15d ago
Draft, review, and negotiate business partnership and commercial agreements across NVIDIA’s global business: hardware, software licensing, reseller, distributor, partner programs, marketing, and government contracts.
Provide end-to-end privacy counseling, including to the Trust & Safety and Product teams on products, features, tools, and operations, from early design through launch and iteration.
Serve as a trusted senior advisor to executives, People Team leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders on complex employment matters, such as workforce strategy, organizational change, global mobility, employee relations, accommodations, leaves, classification, and contingent…
If you're passionate about doing significant and unique work as a technology lawyer, this team is for you. The team comprises legal professionals from diverse fields, including technology, privacy, IP, corporate, cybersecurity, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation.
The team includes professionals from diverse legal fields – technology, AI, infrastructure, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation – who collaborate closely with colleagues across the company.
If you're passionate about doing significant and unique work as a technology lawyer, this team is for you. The team comprises professionals from diverse fields, including technology, AI, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax law, regulatory, and litigation.
If you're passionate about doing significant and unique work as a technology lawyer, this team is for you. The team comprises legal professionals from diverse fields, including technology, privacy, IP, corporate, cybersecurity, employment, tax, regulatory, and litigation.
If you're passionate about doing significant and unique work as a technology lawyer, this team is for you. The team comprises professionals from diverse fields, including technology, AI, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax law, regulatory, and litigation.
If you're passionate about doing significant and unique work as a technology lawyer, this team is for you. The team comprises professionals from diverse fields, including technology, AI, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax law, regulatory, and litigation.
If you're passionate about doing significant and unique work as a technology lawyer, this team is for you. The team comprises professionals from diverse fields, including technology, AI, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax law, regulatory, and litigation.
Orion Placement · 10d ago
Advise clients on financial services regulations affecting derivatives, digital assets, and emerging fintech products. Analyze SEC and CFTC requirements, the Commodity Exchange Act, and related financial regulatory frameworks.
As our Traditional Labor Law Partner, you will play a key role in advising clients, managing sophisticated labor matters, and expanding our traditional labor practice.
Perplexity AI is looking for a Principal Counsel, Corporate to serve as the company’s primary lawyer for corporate governance, equity, and financing matters.
Defend Discord in state attorney general lawsuits and investigations as part of your portfolio, including responding to civil investigative demands and subpoenas.
SoFi is looking for a Senior Counsel with deep experience in economic sanctions and anti-money laundering (AML) to join the Legal team. This attorney will be the company's go-to legal expert on U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
Databricks is seeking a Senior Product Counsel to help the Databricks legal team provide cutting-edge, practical legal advice to Databricks’ engineering and product management teams as we navigate rapidly evolving global laws and regulations in big data, including data privacy,…
As Risk Counsel, you will own the legal response to the moments that matter most: disputes, incidents, collections, and regulatory inquiries.
We are looking for an experienced securities lawyer to join the Corporate Legal team as Corporate Counsel, Public Company Reporting & Governance.
As Product Counsel, you will be a hands-on legal partner to the teams building Claude for consumers and businesses. You'll work across Claude's apps, subscriptions, growth programs and enterprise offerings, moving to wherever the need is greatest.
Anthropic is seeking a Privacy Counsel to join our Legal team. You'll counsel on complex privacy issues and build the processes and programs that address privacy and data protection in a global context.
As a member of the Research Legal team, you'll advise on legal topics across the full lifecycle of building and studying frontier AI models: data acquisition and use, training pipelines, model evaluation and launch, and alignment, interpretability, model welfare, societal…
We are seeking an experienced Corporate Counsel, M&A to join our corporate legal team.
We're looking for a Commercial Counsel, SPARC (Safety, Policy, and Research Contracts) to join our legal team at the forefront of shaping how cutting-edge AI technology reaches users, researchers, and enterprises worldwide.
We are hiring an experienced Product Counsel to join our Legal team.
Serve as the lead lawyer responsible for being the primary lawyer to the GCO organization.
Responsible for the end-to-end compliance investigations process, including conducting and managing all aspects Pinterest’s Compliance investigations program, working closely with fellow compliance team members and cross-functional partners like Employment Legal, Human…
Visa is seeking a lawyer to join its growing Global Regulatory Affairs team. The position will report to the Vice President, Global Regulatory Affairs. The position is based in Atlanta, Austin, or San Francisco.
Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible.
Mastercard’s Privacy, Regulatory, and Technology team is seeking a Senior Counsel to provide support to the Services Business & Market Insights vertical, with a focus on the Enterprise and Credit Risk (ECR) product family.
This role will report to the VP Regulatory-Technology.
We're looking for an Employment Counsel to join Ramp's Legal team. This is a generalist employment role with broad scope. You will handle U.S. employment counseling as your base load, cover non-U.S. jurisdictions as needed, and own immigration and global mobility.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
Manage all facets of litigation, with a focus on labor and employment disputes but with opportunities to expand your portfolio to include consumer, contractual, commercial, or other kinds of legal disputes.
The median Legal Counsel salary in our $200k+ listings is $234,000 a year, based on 214 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $203,000 to $265,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $200k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Legal Counsel roles overall.
Individual $200k+ Legal Counsel listings range from $100,000 to $437,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $203,000 and the 75th percentile is $265,000.
Median pay by level in our $200k+ listings: senior $246,000 (78 listings), lead $239,000 (10 listings). Levels with fewer than 5 listings are left out.
The companies with the most open $200k+ Legal Counsel listings are Orion Placement (35 listings, median $195,000), Anthropic (12 listings, median $300,000), OpenAI (11 listings, median $348,000), Anduril Industries (9 listings, median $256,000) and SpaceX (8 listings, median $248,000).
The figures come from the salary ranges employers publish in their own job listings, collected from company career pages and applicant-tracking systems. Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its range. Only USD listings go into the headline figures, and listings that are closed or stale are removed. The data was last refreshed on November 14, 2026.
Yes. Each listing is tagged remote, hybrid or on-site, and remote roles carry a region (US only, EMEA, APAC or global), so you can filter the live job list to the arrangement you want.
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