150+ Legal & Compliance Jobs in Baltimore, MD

Observed local pay is solid but uneven. The best direct metro wage anchor is BLS data showing legal occupations averaging $59.04/hour in Baltimore, though that figure reflects May 2025 wages and blends high-paid attorneys with lower-paid support roles. More current local posting data centers on about $85k to $120k, with a broader 25th-75th band of about $60k to $197k, while hourly postings cluster around about $25 to $35 / hour. Statewide Maryland offered salaries on new legal, compliance & risk openings averaged about $107,334 in July 2026 based on 218 new postings, versus about $84,177 across all Maryland occupations. For reference, national medians still vary sharply by sub-role: lawyers were at $151,160 and compliance officers at $78,420.

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Advertised pay

Across the 130 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $86,312 at the 25th percentile, $115,500 at the median and $175,000 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 10, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

This is a competitive but still workable market over the next 3-6 months. Baltimore still has live attorney demand, including multiple Maryland Office of the Public Defender openings in late July, and the metro recorded more than 300 Legal, Compliance & Risk postings across more than 175 companies over the last 90 days. But Maryland-wide active postings for this category were down 4.0% year-over-year in July 2026, while Baltimore professional and business services employment was down 1.2476% year-over-year in June 2026. That mix usually rewards candidates who can show sector fit, especially public-sector, healthcare-linked, or AI-governance-oriented experience, rather than broad "open to anything legal" positioning.

Best positioned: The best odds right now are for candidates who can pair legal research, case or process management, or regulatory work with a clear sector story in healthcare, government, or AI governance.

Main caution: Do not assume the headline legal wage applies to every role: local postings center on about $85k to $120k, and much of the current mix sits in operational or sector-specific roles rather than high-end corporate counsel openings.

From the July 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 167 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Legal Aid Bureau, Inc.: 18 open roles
2. Growth Solutions Team: 7 open roles
3. Constellation: 5 open roles
4. Maryland Legal Services Corporation: 5 open roles
5. Morgan & Morgan, PA: 5 open roles
6. YO AI Labs: 5 open roles
7. Maryland AG: 4 open roles
8. Beacon Hill Solutions Group: 3 open roles
9. JobAps: 3 open roles
10. Ororun: 3 open roles

Where the openings are

• Baltimore: 77
• Annapolis: 20
• Towson: 10
• Hunt Valley: 6
• Owings Mills: 5
• Linthicum Heights: 5
• Annapolis Junction: 4
• Baltimore County: 4

Work arrangement

on-site 83 (51%), hybrid 57 (35%), remote 24 (15%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is not evenly spread across the category. Over the last 90 days, the local sample showed more than 300 postings across more than 175 companies, but the mix leaned most heavily toward healthcare at about 35% of postings, legal services at about 25%, and government/public sector at about 10%. That helps explain why current openings look more like public defense, case-heavy legal work, compliance support, and healthcare-adjacent roles than a pure big-law market. The second pocket is hybrid in-house governance work. T. Rowe Price posted a Baltimore hybrid Sr. Analyst, AI – Global Compliance role in late July, which is a concrete sign that local compliance demand is shifting toward AI governance, model-risk, and policy oversight. Search strategy matters here because only about 10% of local postings are remote, while about 60% are on-site and about 30% are hybrid.

• Public-sector law and defense (high): Multiple Baltimore attorney openings at the Maryland Office of the Public Defender make this one of the clearest live demand pockets in the metro.
• Healthcare-linked legal and compliance work (high): Healthcare accounts for about 35% of the local posting mix, and active employers include Key Point Health Services Inc., MedMark Treatment Centers, and August Rose Health Center, LLC.
• In-house AI governance and model-risk compliance (moderate): The Baltimore hybrid T. Rowe Price AI compliance posting shows a real local bridge between compliance, governance, and AI oversight.
• Remote-only traditional legal work (limited): Only about 10% of local openings are remote, and many law firms nationally now require three or more days in the office.

Where to focus: Focus first on public-sector attorneys, healthcare-linked compliance or legal-support work, and AI-governance-adjacent in-house roles; those are the clearest local paths with current evidence behind them.

Roles worth searching next

• Legal Operations Specialist: AI is shrinking routine junior legal work while increasing demand for workflow-savvy legal technologists and legal data specialists.
• eDiscovery / Litigation Support Specialist: AI use in legal teams now includes e-discovery and first-draft document work, making this a realistic bridge for research-heavy candidates.
• AI Governance Program Manager: Baltimore has already shown local AI-compliance demand, and national hiring now includes AI Governance Officer roles.
• HR Employee Relations / Workplace Investigator: Corporate counsel are increasingly flagging layoffs and AI hiring tools as triggers for employment-law and class-action risk, which creates overlap with investigations and policy enforcement work.

What postings ask for

• Legal research and legal writing (table_stakes | immediate): Local postings repeatedly ask for legal research, litigation, and legal writing, which means employers still want strong core legal execution before they care about buzzwords. Who: Entry-level candidates, litigators, paralegals, and public-sector applicants.
• Case management and documentation (table_stakes | immediate): Case management is the most common hard-skill signal in the local sample, and documentation also appears frequently, which fits the metro's heavier mix of healthcare, public-service, and operational roles. Who: Entry-level applicants, career switchers, and anyone targeting healthcare or public-facing roles.
• AI fluency and prompt design (premium | near-term): Employers increasingly want lawyers with AI fluency, and prompt engineering is now treated as a practical skill for producing accurate, jurisdiction-aware legal output. Who: Mid-career attorneys, legal ops candidates, and anyone targeting innovation-heavy employers.
• AI governance and model-risk controls (premium | near-term): General Counsel are being pulled into AI governance work nationally, and Baltimore has already shown a live AI-compliance posting through T. Rowe Price. Who: In-house counsel, compliance managers, risk analysts, and experienced switchers from tech or policy functions.
• Privacy certifications such as CIPP and CIPM (differentiator | near-term): Recent compliance-role roundups repeatedly featured CIPP and CIPM, signaling that privacy and data-governance credibility can help you stand out. Who: Compliance candidates, privacy-adjacent legal professionals, and corporate applicants.
• Risk and investigations credentials such as CAMS, CRISC, and CISSP (differentiator | near-term): CAMS, CRISC, and CISSP show up as featured credentials in current compliance hiring, especially where governance, fraud, cyber, and control work overlap. Who: Career switchers from banking, security, AML, cyber, or internal-controls backgrounds.

Questions about this market

What do Legal, Compliance & Risk roles pay in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD?

Observed local pay is solid but uneven. The best direct metro wage anchor is BLS data showing legal occupations averaging $59.04/hour in Baltimore, though that figure reflects May 2025 wages and blends high-paid attorneys with lower-paid support roles. More current local posting data centers on about $85k to $120k, with a broader 25th-75th band of about $60k to $197k, while hourly postings cluster around about $25 to $35 / hour. Statewide Maryland offered salaries on new legal, compliance & risk openings averaged about $107,334 in July 2026 based on 218 new postings, versus about $84,177 across all Maryland occupations. For reference, national medians still vary sharply by sub-role: lawyers were at $151,160 and compliance officers at $78,420. For Baltimore job seekers, that means the market can still pay well, but the category is wide: attorney-track work pulls averages up, while support and compliance administration roles sit much lower.

Where is demand for Legal, Compliance & Risk roles in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD concentrated?

Real opportunity is not evenly spread across the category. Over the last 90 days, the local sample showed more than 300 postings across more than 175 companies, but the mix leaned most heavily toward healthcare at about 35% of postings, legal services at about 25%, and government/public sector at about 10%. That helps explain why current openings look more like public defense, case-heavy legal work, compliance support, and healthcare-adjacent roles than a pure big-law market. The second pocket is hybrid in-house governance work. T. Rowe Price posted a Baltimore hybrid Sr. Analyst, AI – Global Compliance role in late July, which is a concrete sign that local compliance demand is shifting toward AI governance, model-risk, and policy oversight. Search strategy matters here because only about 10% of local postings are remote, while about 60% are on-site and about 30% are hybrid.

Which employers are hiring the most Legal, Compliance & Risk talent in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD?

Recent postings show the most activity from Maryland AG (10 postings), Americanhs (10 postings), Stattorney (10 postings), JobAps (5 postings), Key Point Health Services Inc. (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Legal, Compliance & Risk roles in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 10% are remote and 30% hybrid, with 60% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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