150+ Legal & Compliance Jobs in Minneapolis, MN

The cleanest local pay benchmark is the BLS legal-occupations figure: $67.68 per hour in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro in May 2025, versus $35.86 across all occupations locally. That is observed government data for legal occupations, not for the full legal/compliance/risk blend. By contrast, local posting-based salary signals for the broader category center on about $103k to $155k, with a broader 25th-75th band of about $80k to $200k, and hourly-paid roles center on about $29 to $35 per hour. A separate statewide offered-pay estimate for legal, compliance & risk in Minnesota was about $94,554 in July 2026, but that was based on 102 new openings, so treat it as directional rather than definitive.

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Advertised pay

Across the 138 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $86,445 at the 25th percentile, $125,051 at the median and $200,746 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 real market, but a selective one. The Minneapolis-St. Paul metro has about 17,950 people employed in legal occupations, local legal pay averages $67.68 an hour versus $35.86 across all occupations, and the recent local sample still showed more than 300 postings across more than 175 companies. The catch is that Minnesota-wide direction signals are tighter than the raw posting count suggests: employment in legal, compliance & risk is up 3.1% year over year, but active postings are down 9.5%, which usually means better odds for specialists than for broad generalists.

Best positioned: Candidates with litigation, energy, medical-device, privacy, or regulated-industry compliance experience, especially those who can show contract-management or AI-governance depth, have the best odds right now.

Main caution: The biggest mistake is treating this like a remote-friendly generalist market when only about 10% of sampled postings were remote and the mix leans heavily to mid-career hiring.

From the July 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 162 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Ororun: 15 open roles
2. mn.gov: 8 open roles
3. Ballard Spahr LLP: 6 open roles
4. 3mmagyarorszag: 5 open roles
5. Optum, Inc.: 5 open roles
6. Fredrikson & Byron, PA: 4 open roles
7. Greenstein Sellers: 4 open roles
8. APi Group: 3 open roles
9. Avisen Legal, PA: 3 open roles
10. Optum: 3 open roles

Where the openings are

• Minneapolis: 96
• Saint Paul: 14
• Maplewood: 11
• Eden Prairie: 11
• Bloomington: 5
• Eagan: 5
• New Brighton: 3
• Edina: 3

Work arrangement

hybrid 71 (47%), on-site 71 (47%), remote 10 (7%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity exists, but it is spread across several submarkets rather than one obvious center. In the local sample, legal services accounted for about 30% of postings, healthcare about 25%, financial services about 10%, and education about 5%, with recurring activity from Dorsey & Whitney LLP, U.S. Bank, Behavioral Health Group, People Incorporated, Mt Olivet Rolling Acres, Sagent Behavioral Health, and Minnesota government roles. That split creates two different searches inside the same category. Law-firm and regulatory openings reward legal research, negotiation, litigation, and practice-area depth, while in-house and program-compliance roles lean harder on regulatory compliance, risk management, case management, privacy, and operational policy work. So the best search strategy is not 'apply to everything legal' but 'pick the demand cluster that matches your evidence of doing the work already.'

• Law firms and regulatory practices (high): This lane includes firms such as Dorsey & Whitney LLP and rewards legal research, negotiation, litigation support, and specialized domain depth such as energy transactional work.
• Healthcare and behavioral compliance (high): Healthcare is a large local demand pocket, and some postings in the category blend legal, compliance, case-management, and program-governance work rather than classic law-firm practice.
• Financial services and bank compliance (moderate): Financial services remains a meaningful local segment, with U.S. Bank among the recurring employers and with demand likely centered on risk, controls, and regulated-process work.
• Privacy and responsible-AI governance (moderate): This is a smaller but premium-paying niche, supported by a local Target posting in responsible AI and privacy plus broader growth in privacy-law complexity and AI-governance requirements.

Where to focus: Focus first on the segment where you already have domain proof, then tailor every application to that lane instead of marketing yourself as a broad legal generalist.

Roles worth searching next

• Regulatory Affairs Specialist or Manager: Local evidence points to Minneapolis demand around regulatory affairs tied to energy transactional work, including PPAs, interconnection agreements, and transmission matters.
• Legal Operations Specialist: Tech-fluent legal operations specialists are among the more sought-after hires as firms use AI and process redesign to improve efficiency.
• HR Compliance or Hiring Compliance Specialist: Pay transparency, AI hiring controls, and screening restrictions are expanding, creating work at the boundary of legal, compliance, and HR operations.
• Privacy or Responsible-AI Program Manager: Local and national signals both point to privacy and responsible-AI governance as an emerging premium niche.

What postings ask for

• Regulatory compliance and risk management workflows (table_stakes | immediate): Local postings repeatedly call for regulatory compliance, compliance, and risk management, so this is baseline screening language rather than a niche add-on. Who: Everyone in the category, especially compliance managers, analysts, and in-house candidates.
• Legal research and case management (table_stakes | immediate): These are among the most requested local hard skills, making them core proof points for paralegal, litigation-support, and junior legal roles. Who: Entry-level applicants, paralegals, and anyone trying to move from administrative work into legal support.
• Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) (premium | near-term): Privacy is one of the clearest premium niches, backed by expanding state privacy-law complexity and a Minneapolis-area responsible-AI/privacy opening at Target. Who: Mid-career compliance professionals, in-house counsel, and switchers targeting privacy or data-governance work.
• AI governance, documentation, and human oversight (premium | immediate): Employers increasingly expect documentation of training-data sources, risk assessments, bias testing, incident response, and human-in-the-loop controls, and local guidance now calls for inventories of automated hiring tools. Who: In-house counsel, HR compliance professionals, privacy candidates, and anyone interviewing with enterprise employers.
• Contract management and compliance administration (differentiator | near-term): Contract-management roles are seeing faster projected pay growth than broader legal roles, and specialized contract and compliance administration skills are being priced above general support work. Who: Mid-career candidates, career switchers from procurement or vendor management, and in-house applicants.
• Certified E-Discovery Specialist (CEDS) (differentiator | near-term): CEDS lines up with demand for tech-fluent paralegals and legal-operations talent as firms push efficiency and workflow modernization. Who: Paralegals, litigation-support professionals, and legal-ops candidates.

Questions about this market

What do Legal, Compliance & Risk roles pay in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI?

The cleanest local pay benchmark is the BLS legal-occupations figure: $67.68 per hour in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro in May 2025, versus $35.86 across all occupations locally. That is observed government data for legal occupations, not for the full legal/compliance/risk blend. By contrast, local posting-based salary signals for the broader category center on about $103k to $155k, with a broader 25th-75th band of about $80k to $200k, and hourly-paid roles center on about $29 to $35 per hour. A separate statewide offered-pay estimate for legal, compliance & risk in Minnesota was about $94,554 in July 2026, but that was based on 102 new openings, so treat it as directional rather than definitive. This is a market where pay can be very good, but the high numbers often belong to narrower slices of the category rather than to every legal-support or compliance role.

Where is demand for Legal, Compliance & Risk roles in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI concentrated?

Real opportunity exists, but it is spread across several submarkets rather than one obvious center. In the local sample, legal services accounted for about 30% of postings, healthcare about 25%, financial services about 10%, and education about 5%, with recurring activity from Dorsey & Whitney LLP, U.S. Bank, Behavioral Health Group, People Incorporated, Mt Olivet Rolling Acres, Sagent Behavioral Health, and Minnesota government roles. That split creates two different searches inside the same category. Law-firm and regulatory openings reward legal research, negotiation, litigation, and practice-area depth, while in-house and program-compliance roles lean harder on regulatory compliance, risk management, case management, privacy, and operational policy work. So the best search strategy is not 'apply to everything legal' but 'pick the demand cluster that matches your evidence of doing the work already.'

Which employers are hiring the most Legal, Compliance & Risk talent in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI?

Recent postings show the most activity from Dorsey & Whitney LLP (10 postings), U.S. Bank (10 postings), Behavioral Health Group (5 postings), People Incorporated (5 postings), Mt Olivet Rolling Acres (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Legal, Compliance & Risk roles in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 10% are remote and 40% hybrid, with 50% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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