Legal compensation
Legal Salary at AI Startups (2026)
The median Legal salary at AI startups is $206,250, based on 238 disclosed job postings ($53,635–$425,000 range). Updated September 2026. These are aggregate figures only; we never publish an individual company's offer.
$53,635Minimum
$206,250Median
$425,000Maximum
Sample size: based on 238 disclosed salaries.
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Median Legal salary by funding stage
| Funding stage | Median salary | Sample size |
|---|---|---|
| Series G+ | $265,000 | 60 |
| Debt | $240,000 | 9 |
| Series F | $214,000 | 11 |
| Seed | $212,500 | 6 |
| Series C | $207,500 | 29 |
| Bootstrapped | $207,500 | 5 |
| Unknown | $195,750 | 6 |
| Series D | $186,895 | 33 |
| Series A | $180,000 | 18 |
| Series E | $166,250 | 18 |
| Series B | $162,740 | 26 |
| Series G | $109,688 | 10 |
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How we calculate this
Roughly a quarter of AI-startup postings disclose pay. We extract the USD range from those that do, normalize each to a midpoint, and aggregate across distinct postings (deduplicated by posting ID). The minimum, median, and maximum above are based on 238 disclosed salaries. We publish aggregate ranges only, never a single company's salary, so the numbers stay representative rather than anecdotal.
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