Legal

Legal removes operational friction while controlling quality and risk.

Salary from $1,445 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $2,068 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 282 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 56 $1617–$2894 Compliance 44 $1908–$3858 Contract Law 33 $1134–$2152 Legal Research 33 $1475–$2670 Intellectual Property Law 31 $1433–$3176 Contract Drafting 29 $1343–$2735 Negotiation 26 $1717–$3229 Commercial Law 22 $1539–$2675 Legal Compliance 20 $1944–$2744 International Law 18 $1257–$2536 KYC 16 $1697–$3023 Legal drafting 16 $1172–$4452 Commercial Contracts 14 $1733–$3300 Corporate Governance 14 $1000–$4755

Where to hire

Sources

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