Legal compensation
Legal Salary at AI Startups (2026)
The median Legal salary at AI startups is $199,900, based on 330 disclosed job postings ($53,635–$425,000 range). Updated October 2026. These are aggregate figures only; we never publish an individual company's offer.
$53,635Minimum
$199,900Median
$425,000Maximum
Sample size: based on 330 disclosed salaries.
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Median Legal salary by funding stage
| Funding stage | Median salary | Sample size |
|---|---|---|
| Series G+ | $228,750 | 92 |
| Unknown | $204,250 | 7 |
| Series B | $200,000 | 33 |
| Series D | $200,000 | 37 |
| Series C | $200,000 | 49 |
| Series F | $195,050 | 20 |
| Seed | $195,000 | 6 |
| Growth | $185,000 | 15 |
| Private Equity | $175,000 | 9 |
| Series E | $169,250 | 26 |
| Series A | $155,000 | 22 |
| Debt | $130,250 | 6 |
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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 330 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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