75+ Legal & Compliance Jobs in Columbus, OH

Government wage data for the broad legal occupational family in Columbus shows a $100,700 median, $119,300 mean, $63,460 at the 25th percentile, and $155,270 at the 75th percentile in 2025. A more current posting-based signal puts advertised ranges for this category around about $102k to $135k, with a broader band around about $79k to $185k, while Revelio Public Labor Statistics puts Ohio's mean offered salary on new openings at about $98,937 in September 2026 (n=81).

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Advertised pay

Across the 45 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $96,750 at the 25th percentile, $143,205 at the median and $188,375 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 15, 2026

Senior roles | Entry level | Remote | Posted this week

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

Columbus is still a workable market for Legal, Compliance & Risk, but it is selective rather than easy. Metro unemployment was 3.3% in August 2026 and Columbus professional and business services employment was down -4.2879% year over year, while Ohio legal, compliance & risk employment was up 1.8% but active postings were down 12.6% year over year. Real openings exist—more than 75 postings across more than 50 companies in the last 90 days—but the mix skews mid-career and mostly on-site, so the best odds go to candidates who can show domain depth quickly.

Best positioned: A mid-career attorney, contracts/compliance manager, or regulated-industry risk professional who can show legal research, contract negotiation, regulatory compliance, and project management skill—and who is open to on-site work—has the best odds right now.

Main caution: The biggest mistake is treating this as a broad-access market: only about 5% of observed openings were entry level, and less than 5% of postings that stated a sponsorship policy mentioned visa sponsorship.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 80 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Bricker Graydon Wyatt: 6 open roles
2. Family Law: 3 open roles
3. J.P. Morgan SE: 3 open roles
4. Miami County Ohio: 3 open roles
5. Ohio State University: 3 open roles
6. Anduril Industries, Inc.: 2 open roles
7. Cardinal Health Canada Inc.: 2 open roles
8. Cardinal Health, Inc.: 2 open roles
9. Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP: 2 open roles
10. HITEC: 2 open roles

Where the openings are

• Columbus: 57
• Dublin: 8
• Ashville: 2
• Washington: 1
• Cincinnati: 1
• Westerville: 1
• Reynoldsburg: 1
• Sheffield Village: 1

Work arrangement

on-site 49 (64%), hybrid 21 (27%), remote 7 (9%)

Where the demand is

The clearest concentration is still in classic legal environments. In the recent Columbus posting mix, law practice accounts for about 35% of roles and legal services about 25%. That lines up with local signals around labor and employment, corporate and M&A, litigation, and government-relations-related work, including a Columbus labor and employment seminar hosted by Shumaker, Dickinson Wright recognitions across corporate, M&A, labor and employment, and government relations, and Pierson Ferdinand's Columbus litigation partner addition. The second cluster is regulated in-house work. Financial services, insurance, and hospitals and health care each account for about 10% of observed postings, and the named employer mix includes J.P. Morgan SE, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, CAS, DHL Group, Ohio Department of Commerce, and Vertiv alongside firms. Because hiring is fragmented rather than dominated by one employer, targeted outreach beats waiting for a single marquee company to drive the market.

• Law firms and legal services (high): This is the biggest visible pool locally, with about 35% of postings in law practice and about 25% in legal services.
• Regulated in-house legal, compliance, and risk teams (moderate): Financial services, insurance, and hospitals and health care each make up about 10% of observed postings, which supports targeting banks, insurers, and health-related employers for compliance-first and contracts-heavy work.
• Public-sector and government-facing roles (moderate): Ohio Department of Commerce appears among the active local employers, and government-relations work shows up in local practice recognition, making this a smaller but credible lane for candidates with regulatory writing strength.

Where to focus: Pick one firm track and one regulated-industry track, then tailor your materials to each instead of applying to the whole category at once.

Roles worth searching next

• Contract administrator / procurement contracts specialist: Local demand emphasizes contract negotiation, project management, and contract lifecycle skill, which can transfer into procurement or commercial-operations roles.
• Privacy or data governance analyst: Privacy, data security, and data protection are clear areas of employer interest and a strong bridge between legal and data-focused teams.
• eDiscovery or legal tech project manager: eDiscovery and legal operations skills are gaining importance, and law firms plus corporate legal departments are expanding AI use.
• Employee relations or labor relations specialist: Local signals show labor and employment work remains active in Columbus, which creates overlap with policy, investigations, and workplace-risk work.
• Policy analyst or government affairs coordinator: Government relations shows up in local practice recognition, and Ohio Department of Commerce appears among active employers.

What postings ask for

• Legal research (table_stakes | immediate): It is the most-requested hard skill in observed local postings, appearing in about 45% of them. Who: Entry-level candidates, paralegal-track applicants, and attorneys moving into a new specialty.
• Contract negotiation and contract management (differentiator | immediate): Contract negotiation appears in about 20% of local postings, and Robert Half also flags contract management and negotiation as in-demand in Columbus. Who: Mid-career lawyers, contracts managers, procurement-adjacent candidates, and compliance professionals.
• Regulatory compliance and risk management (differentiator | immediate): Regulatory compliance and risk management each appear in about 10% of local postings, making them the clearest bridge into non-law-firm roles. Who: Career switchers from regulated operations, audit-adjacent workers moving into compliance-first jobs, and in-house candidates.
• Project management plus legal operations / CLM (premium | near-term): Project management appears in about 15% of local postings, and legal operations plus contract lifecycle management are gaining importance nationally. Who: Mid-career professionals, operations-minded attorneys, and career switchers from PM-heavy environments.
• Data privacy and data protection knowledge (premium | near-term): Privacy, data security, and data protection knowledge are all called out as strong-demand areas for legal talent in 2026. Who: Compliance candidates, tech-industry applicants, and lawyers targeting AI- or information-governance-heavy work.
• AI fluency and prompt design for legal work (premium | near-term): AI fluency is becoming a core legal skill, 96% of surveyed senior legal leaders expect AI literacy to grow in importance, and prompt engineering is becoming essential for in-house teams. Who: Anyone applying to in-house, legal ops, compliance, or modern law-firm roles.

Questions about this market

What do Legal, Compliance & Risk roles pay in Columbus, OH?

Government wage data for the broad legal occupational family in Columbus shows a $100,700 median, $119,300 mean, $63,460 at the 25th percentile, and $155,270 at the 75th percentile in 2025. A more current posting-based signal puts advertised ranges for this category around about $102k to $135k, with a broader band around about $79k to $185k, while Revelio Public Labor Statistics puts Ohio's mean offered salary on new openings at about $98,937 in September 2026 (n=81). This is a solid-paying Columbus market. The metro's legal occupational group averaged $57.35 per hour versus $32.34 across all occupations, although Columbus still trailed the national legal-group mean of $67.07 in the latest comparable wage release.

Where is demand for Legal, Compliance & Risk roles in Columbus, OH concentrated?

The clearest concentration is still in classic legal environments. In the recent Columbus posting mix, law practice accounts for about 35% of roles and legal services about 25%. That lines up with local signals around labor and employment, corporate and M&A, litigation, and government-relations-related work, including a Columbus labor and employment seminar hosted by Shumaker, Dickinson Wright recognitions across corporate, M&A, labor and employment, and government relations, and Pierson Ferdinand's Columbus litigation partner addition. The second cluster is regulated in-house work. Financial services, insurance, and hospitals and health care each account for about 10% of observed postings, and the named employer mix includes J.P. Morgan SE, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, CAS, DHL Group, Ohio Department of Commerce, and Vertiv alongside firms. Because hiring is fragmented rather than dominated by one employer, targeted outreach beats waiting for a single marquee company to drive the market.

Which employers are hiring the most Legal, Compliance & Risk talent in Columbus, OH?

Recent postings show the most activity from Bricker Graydon Wyatt (5 postings), Knrlegal (5 postings), J.P. Morgan SE (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Legal, Compliance & Risk roles in Columbus, OH be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 15% are remote and 20% hybrid, with 65% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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