Legal

Legal removes operational friction while controlling quality and risk.

Salary from $1,453 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $2,065 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 273 Last 3 months
Applications per job 4 JobNote category match
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Published signal

Exact function
$2,430 Legal median
$2,700 Legal median

Hiring Use a real exception or failure case and ask how the candidate improved the process.

Candidate Show faster service, lower risk, clearer information, or lower cost.

Data Net monthly DOU survey median.

Independent salary benchmark

DOU salary survey

Source data
June 2026 · 53 respondents
Role family
Lower quartile$1700
Median$2430
Upper quartile$4200
Year over year +5.7%

Salary range history

Lower quartile Median Upper quartile
Historical DOU salary range by survey month and year
Survey Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Respondents
$1450 $2600 $4000 44
$1500 $2300 $4200 33
$1450 $2600 $4600 51
$1700 $2430 $4200 53

Legal counsel and lawyers · monthly net base salary in USD; bonuses excluded; all locations in the published CSV.

Derived from the shortened public salary-survey data published by DOU. Jobnote and DOU vacancy salaries are separate datasets.

Most wanted skills

Counts of active jobs now and salaries.

Corporate Law 55 $1617–$2921 Contract Law 38 $1134–$2052 Legal Research 38 $1475–$2599 Compliance 36 $1966–$3859 Intellectual Property Law 30 $1433–$3345 Negotiation 29 $1640–$3230 Commercial Law 28 $1539–$2606 Contract Drafting 27 $1343–$2696 Legal Compliance 24 $1429–$2544 International Law 21 $1257–$2640 Legal drafting 17 $1172–$4452 KYC 15 $1746–$3158 Corporate Governance 14 $1000–$4755 Risk Assessment 14 $2387–$3648

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Non-technical salaries — summer 2026 Published signal ·
  2. Non-technical salaries — winter 2026 Published signal ·