Which pays more, Compliance Officer or Corporate Counsel?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Compliance Officer vs Corporate Counsel

Corporate Counsel pays more: a median of $155,000 against $124,500. There is 2.3× more demand for Compliance Officer. Listings for Compliance Officer move faster — median age 35 days against 46.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Compliance Officer	Corporate Counsel	Gap
Open postings	22,930	9,865	+13,065
Posted this week	1,005	487
Median salary	$124,500	$155,000	$-30.5k
25th percentile	$98.5k	$123k
75th percentile	$155k	$192k
Salary disclosed	6.7%	7.1%
Remote share	11.5%	12.2%	-0.7pp
Median age of posting	35d	46d
Open over 60 days	39.0%	43.8%
Visa sponsorship	7.6%	12.7%

Pay

Pay distribution

Compliance Officer

$56k$215k

Corporate Counsel

$70k$268k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Compliance Officer

just posted35d median90d+

Corporate Counsel

just posted46d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Compliance Officer — technologies

Salesforce

72.0%

Airflow

65.8%

Node.js

59.6%

Kubernetes

53.4%

React

47.2%

HubSpot

41.0%

TypeScript

34.8%

Corporate Counsel — technologies

Python

72.0%

JavaScript

65.8%

Salesforce

59.6%

Java

53.4%

Docker

47.2%

GCP

41.0%

dbt

34.8%

Compliance Officer — employers

Brightline Retail

9.4%

Lakeshore Hospitality

8.7%

Umbra Security

8.0%

Rivergate Media

7.2%

Kestrel Health

6.5%

Tidewater Insurance

5.8%

Cobalt Financial

5.1%

Corporate Counsel — employers

Northwind Systems

9.4%

Kestrel Health

8.7%

Pinewood Education

8.0%

Beacon Robotics

7.2%

Halcyon Energy

6.5%

Meridian Software

5.8%

Umbra Security

5.1%

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Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.