Legal compensation
Legal Salary at AI Startups (2026)
The median Legal salary at AI startups is $212,000, based on 173 disclosed job postings ($41,600–$425,000 range). Updated July 2026. These are aggregate figures only; we never publish an individual company's offer.
$41,600Minimum
$212,000Median
$425,000Maximum
Sample size: based on 173 disclosed salaries.
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Median Legal salary by funding stage
| Funding stage | Median salary | Sample size |
|---|---|---|
| Series F | $250,000 | 7 |
| Series G+ | $237,500 | 46 |
| Debt | $229,500 | 11 |
| Series C | $223,500 | 27 |
| Series D | $210,000 | 17 |
| Series B | $185,000 | 16 |
| Series A | $180,000 | 21 |
| Series G | $97,278 | 8 |
| Series E | $80,075 | 5 |
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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 173 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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