Legal Jobs in Philadelphia, PA

Observed government wage data shows Philadelphia legal occupations paid a $104,750 annual median and $139,460 annual mean in 2025, with a $72,830 25th percentile and $182,040 75th percentile; the mean hourly wage was $67.05. More current posting-based signals are directional: recent posted ranges in the metro centered on about $100k to $150k, with a broader band of about $70k to $211k.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 138 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $85,000 at the 25th percentile, $140,288 at the median and $192,000 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of November 10, 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

This is a viable but selective market, not an easy one. The Philadelphia metro had 32,950 legal-occupation jobs in 2025, metro unemployment was 4.4% in August 2026, and Pennsylvania legal, compliance & risk employment was up 2.8% year over year in September 2026 even as statewide active postings were down 7.4%. That mix usually means real underlying demand, but fewer fresh openings per candidate. Pay is strong, with the local legal-occupation median at $104,750 and recent posted ranges clustering around about $100k to $150k, but access is skewed toward experienced candidates and attorney tracks.

Best positioned: A mid-career attorney, in-house counsel, compliance manager, or risk professional who can show privacy, cyber, regulatory, or contract-heavy work has the best odds right now.

Main caution: The biggest mistake is assuming a big legal metro automatically means easy entry; only about 15% of sampled openings were entry level, and most roles were on-site or hybrid rather than remote.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 277 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Marshall Dennehey: 12 open roles
2. Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP: 7 open roles
3. Trustpoint: 7 open roles
4. Beacon Hill Solutions Group: 6 open roles
5. Legal Aid of Southeastern PA: 6 open roles
6. Tyson & Mendes LLP: 6 open roles
7. Ascendion: 5 open roles
8. Morgan & Morgan, PA: 5 open roles
9. Axiom: 4 open roles
10. Fox Rothschild LLP: 4 open roles

Where the openings are

• Philadelphia: 140
• Wilmington: 22
• Cherry Hill: 8
• Conshohocken: 7
• Mount Laurel: 7
• King of Prussia: 6
• West Chester: 6
• Norristown: 5

Work arrangement

on-site 140 (51%), hybrid 110 (40%), remote 22 (8%)

Where the demand is

Most visible opportunity is still anchored in traditional legal employers. In the recent local sample, legal services accounted for about 55% of postings, with law practice and other legal employers adding about 15% each, so most openings are still tied to law-firm-style work rather than pure corporate compliance teams. That lines up with the skill mix: legal research showed up in about 35% of postings, while case management and legal writing each appeared in about 15%, and litigation in about 10%. The second pocket is regulated in-house work. Insurance and financial services each represented about 5% of sampled postings, and named local examples included regulatory attorney, senior securities counsel, trial attorney, and settlement paralegal openings tied to Five Below, SEPTA, Transamerica, and Barnes. Privacy, cybersecurity, AI fluency, compliance, and risk-management language appear as premium overlays on top of legal fundamentals, which is why cyber-risk and healthcare-liability themes keep surfacing in Philadelphia industry events. What is less attractive right now is the broad entry-level search. Only about 15% of postings were entry level, versus about 60% mid-level and about 20% senior, so candidates without experience do better when they aim at support-heavy or regulated-operations roles rather than full attorney tracks.

• Law firms and litigation-heavy practice (high): Still the biggest local opportunity set, with most posting volume concentrated in legal services and law-practice employers and strong demand for legal research, writing, and case management.
• In-house regulated employers (moderate): Insurance, financial-services, transit, and retail-related legal teams are a smaller slice, but they offer solid openings for regulatory, securities, employment, and settlement work.
• Privacy, cyber, and AI-linked risk work (high): This is the clearest premium niche because local and national signals keep emphasizing data privacy, cybersecurity, AI fluency, and AI governance on top of legal core skills.
• Broad entry-level attorney-track hiring (limited): There are openings, but the share is limited and the bar for readiness is high compared with mid-level hiring.

Where to focus: Focus on mid-level openings that combine core legal execution with a regulated-domain overlay, especially privacy, cybersecurity, securities, employment, or contract-and-risk work.

Roles worth searching next

• Employee relations specialist: Labor and employment law is one of the employer-interest areas highlighted for legal talent, so investigation, policy, and workplace-dispute experience can transfer.
• Privacy analyst: Privacy, data security, cybersecurity, and AI-related issues are recurring local and national themes around legal hiring.
• Insurance claims or coverage analyst: Insurance-linked legal hiring and cyber-risk activity show overlap with policy interpretation, dispute handling, and exposure analysis.
• Governance project manager: AI governance, compliance, data analytics, and legal technology all point toward governance-heavy project work outside the classic legal ladder.

What postings ask for

• Legal research (table_stakes | immediate): It appeared in about 35% of sampled postings, making it the clearest baseline filter in this metro. Who: Almost everyone in attorney, paralegal, and compliance-support tracks.
• Legal writing (table_stakes | immediate): It is one of the most commonly requested hard skills in local postings and is hard to fake in screening processes. Who: Entry-level candidates, litigators, and anyone trying to stand out without brand-name employers.
• Case management (differentiator | immediate): About 15% of sampled postings referenced it, which makes it especially useful for paralegal, settlement, and litigation-support paths. Who: Entry-level candidates, paralegals, and career switchers coming from operations-heavy backgrounds.
• Regulatory compliance and risk management (premium | immediate): Local postings call for regulatory compliance and risk management, and national legal hiring guidance also points to compliance as a higher-value niche. Who: Career switchers from regulated industries and mid-career candidates moving toward in-house work.
• Contract negotiation (differentiator | near-term): It shows up among the most requested hard skills locally and helps bridge legal, procurement, and business-facing work. Who: In-house hopefuls, compliance candidates, and non-litigators.
• Data privacy and cybersecurity (premium | immediate): Local posting analysis flagged data privacy and cybersecurity as premium skills, and Philadelphia event activity keeps reinforcing cyber, healthcare, and regulatory-liability themes. Who: Mid-career attorneys, compliance managers, privacy-minded switchers, and anyone targeting regulated employers.

Questions about this market

What do Legal, Compliance & Risk roles pay in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD?

Observed government wage data shows Philadelphia legal occupations paid a $104,750 annual median and $139,460 annual mean in 2025, with a $72,830 25th percentile and $182,040 75th percentile; the mean hourly wage was $67.05. More current posting-based signals are directional: recent posted ranges in the metro centered on about $100k to $150k, with a broader band of about $70k to $211k. This is a strong-paying market relative to Pennsylvania's all-occupation mean offered salary of ~$61,769 and even above the state's mean offered salary on new legal openings of ~$128,324, but the average is lifted by attorney and in-house counsel compensation.

Where is demand for Legal, Compliance & Risk roles in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD concentrated?

Most visible opportunity is still anchored in traditional legal employers. In the recent local sample, legal services accounted for about 55% of postings, with law practice and other legal employers adding about 15% each, so most openings are still tied to law-firm-style work rather than pure corporate compliance teams. That lines up with the skill mix: legal research showed up in about 35% of postings, while case management and legal writing each appeared in about 15%, and litigation in about 10%. The second pocket is regulated in-house work. Insurance and financial services each represented about 5% of sampled postings, and named local examples included regulatory attorney, senior securities counsel, trial attorney, and settlement paralegal openings tied to Five Below, SEPTA, Transamerica, and Barnes. Privacy, cybersecurity, AI fluency, compliance, and risk-management language appear as premium overlays on top of legal fundamentals, which is why cyber-risk and healthcare-liability themes keep surfacing in Philadelphia industry events. What is less attractive right now is the broad entry-level search. Only about 15% of postings were entry level, versus about 60% mid-level and about 20% senior, so candidates without experience do better when they aim at support-heavy or regulated-operations roles rather than full attorney tracks.

Which employers are hiring the most Legal, Compliance & Risk talent in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD?

Recent postings show the most activity from Alevistarjobs (75 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Legal, Compliance & Risk roles in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 40% hybrid, with 55% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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