Executive Assistant leads the field
Executive Assistant is the most in-demand legal & admin role (255 open, 31% of the field), followed by Compliance Manager (171).
Legal & Admin · State of the market
State of the Legal & Admin job market.
A live read on legal & admin hiring, built from 811 open roles across 232 companies - the 9th-largest field we track, and 2% of everything open. Updated hourly from public job postings.
Synced from public job postings · snapshot September 2026
811
Open roles
+76
Posted this week
232
Companies hiring
$175k
Median base, where disclosed
What the data says
Four things the listings tell us
There are 811 open legal & admin roles across 232 companies on LandEarly right now, with 76 posted in the past week. Senior-level roles make up 48% of the openings, and 52% of roles that specify a work model are fully remote.
Weighted toward senior experience
48% of open legal & admin roles read as senior-level. Entry-level (intern + junior) roles are 9% - a signal of how open this field is to early-career candidates.
A remote-friendly field
Of legal & admin roles that specify a work model, 52% are fully remote and 20% are hybrid. (Many listings don't declare one - this is the share among those that do.)
Companies hiring right now
Airwallex is the most active employer in legal & admin (46 open roles, 6% of the field), but the openings are spread across 232 companies in total.
Where the demand is
One field, 11 different jobs
“Legal & Admin” is a bucket, not a job. It rolls up 11 titles that share a craft but not a day - different scope, different level, different pay band. Which title you're chasing is the first cut worth making.
Open roles by title
Share of 811 listingsExperience level
All open rolesIntern<1%
Junior8%
Mid40%
Senior48%
Principal<1%
Executive3%
Read off each posting at ingest, not a field employers fill in - so this is a share of all 811 open roles, with nothing left out.
Work model
Where declaredOn-site 28%Hybrid 20%Remote 52%
Only 301 of 811 legal & admin listings declare a work model. These shares cover those, and no others.
Freshness
What’s open, by the week it posted
How old the live legal & admin pipeline is - the window where applying early still puts you in front of a human instead of a stack.
Jun 22This week
+76
legal & admin roles posted in the last seven days, across 232 employers - 9% of everything open in the field.
Each bar is the open roles posted that week, not a count of everything posted then: roles that have since closed are gone from it, so older weeks read lighter by design. The window starts when we began ingesting legal & admin listings, because a week-by-week series that ran further back would measure our board coverage rather than the market. 31 listings carry no posting date and sit out of this chart.
Pay, where disclosed
Base salary, from listings that state one
Base only. Bonus, commission and equity are real money but listings describe them too inconsistently to compare, so they stay out of the maths rather than inflate it.
25th percentile
$103k
The bottom of the middle 50%
Median
$175k
Half of priced listings pay more
75th percentile
$234k
Top of the middle 50%
$103k$175k$234k
What the number is
Computed from the 220 open legal & admin listings that state an annual base range - one midpoint per listing. The other 591 state none, and are not estimated in.
Executive Assistant salary guideWho's hiring, and where
232 companies, 10 metros
Most active employers
Open legal & admin roles
Top locations
Open legal & admin rolesSan Francisco, CA93
New York, NY78
Chicago, IL20
Seattle, WA18
Durham, NC14
Miami, FL14
Austin, TX12
Nashville, TN10
Stanford, CA9
Boston, MA8
Employers write locations as free text, so every spelling of a city is resolved to one market before it’s counted. A listing naming several markets counts in each, so these don’t sum to the field. The 474 that name no city - remote, “Hybrid”, a campus or a building - sit out entirely rather than get attributed to one.
Methodology
How we compute this
Short version: we count listings, we don't model them. Where the data is thin, the page says so instead of guessing.
Counted, not estimated
Every figure comes from the 811 active legal & admin listings we track across 15 applicant-tracking systems, ingested hourly from public job boards. A role that closes this morning drops out this afternoon.
Shares state their own denominator
Work-model percentages cover only the 301 listings that declare one. Experience level is read off every posting at ingest, so those shares cover the whole field. We’d rather show the smaller base than fill the gap.
A field rolls up related titles
Legal & Admin covers Executive Assistant, Compliance Manager, Legal Counsel and 8 more titles. A posting joins a title when its own text describes that job - the roll-up is on the classified role, never on a keyword in the headline.
FAQ
Common questions
How many legal & admin jobs are open right now?
811 as of September 2026, across 232 companies, with 76 posted in the last seven days. The count is recomputed every hour and roles that close drop out the same day.
Which legal & admin roles are most in demand?
Executive Assistant (255 open), Compliance Manager (171 open), and Legal Counsel (140 open) - out of 11 legal & admin titles carrying at least one open role today.
Are legal & admin jobs remote?
Of the 301 legal & admin listings that declare a work model, 52% are fully remote, 20% hybrid and 28% on-site. Most listings never say, so this is the share among those that do - not of the whole field.
What does a legal & admin job pay?
Median disclosed base is $175k, with the middle 50% between $103k and $234k. That is base only, computed from the 220 open legal & admin listings that state an annual range - bonus, commission and equity are excluded because listings describe them too inconsistently to compare.
What experience level are legal & admin jobs?
48% of open legal & admin roles read as senior-level, and 9% are entry-level (intern or junior). The level is read off each posting when we ingest it, so every open role is counted here.
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