Legal GRC Jobs 2026 75 Open Roles

Where GRC ends and the law begins is a blurry line, and a lot of the best governance work lives right on it. Privacy counsel, compliance counsel, AI and regulatory attorneys, and legal-operations professionals sit at the heart of how companies read the rules and build to them. Law firms, legal-tech companies, and in-house legal teams hire steadily for people who can turn a statute into a working control. If you came up through the law and think in obligations, this is your lane.

Compliance Officer paystats as of Q2 2026

BLS put the 2024 median at $78,420. In 2026, market trackers show averages from roughly $99,000 to $120,000, with the top quartile above $160,000. Financial centers and senior governance roles sit at the top of that range.

Sources: BLS, 2024 median

Legal GRC jobs: what the market looks like right now

A snapshot built from the 75 Legal GRC roles currently on this page.

What these roles pay by level

Median advertised midpoint, by seniority band. Bars are to scale.

Median advertised salary midpoint by seniority level
Level	Median midpoint	Postings
Mid-level	$145k	13
Senior / lead / manager	$212k	8
Executive / C-suite	$220k	5

How these figures were calculated, and sources

Primary source: our own board. Every figure above is the median midpoint of the salary ranges published in the live postings on this page. Nothing is estimated, modeled, or carried over from a previous month. It is recalculated each time the board refreshes.

What is included. Only postings that publish a salary range. Hourly, weekly and monthly rates are annualised (2,080 hours, 52 weeks, 12 months). Ranges below $20,000 a year are excluded as data-entry placeholders. A seniority band is shown only when at least five postings support it; director is present on this page but below that threshold, so no median is published for that band.

What this is not. These are advertised ranges, not accepted offers. Advertised ranges tend to run wider than what is actually paid, and roles that do not publish a range are missing from the calculation entirely, which can bias the result upward.

For an independent benchmark, compare against the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for SOC 13-1041 — Compliance Officers, published annually at bls.gov/oes. BLS reports actual wages across all employers rather than advertised ranges, so its medians normally sit below job-board figures.

Where the work is

Work mode: 12 remote, 2 hybrid, 61 on-site or unstated.
Seniority mix: mid (31), senior (23), director (15), executive (6)
Employers hiring more than one: Charles River Associates (6), Airwallex (4), Anthropic (3), Carta (3), Solutus Legal Search (2), Office of the Director of National Intelligence (2)

Skills these postings ask for

policy and procedure writing
control testing and evidence collection
regulatory change management
SOX and SOC 2 readiness
issue management and remediation tracking

How to get a compliance job — the full career guide for this field: entry routes, transferable backgrounds, certifications and salary by level.

Certifications that come up most

None of these are universally required, but they appear often enough in Legal GRC postings to be worth knowing: CCEP, CRCM, CAMS, CIPP/US, AIGP. The certification academy covers what each one actually tests and who it is for.

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