Brightflag’s annual Legal Operations Compensation Report features insights gathered from the hundreds of corporate legal operations professionals who fill out our compensation survey each year.
Its aim is to help legal operations professionals, General Counsel, and HR leaders benchmark legal operations salaries, understand compensation trends, and discover the key drivers of pay among legal ops professionals.
Now in its fourth year, the report has become the authoritative source for corporate legal operations salary benchmarks. It also provides a snapshot of corporate legal operations in 2025: the geographic breadth, the vertical penetration, and the career paths its professionals are taking.
What’s in the Legal Operations Compensation Report
Download the compensation survey results to see:
- Survey demographics including work location, industry, department size, years of professional experience, reporting line, and people management responsibility
- Base salary, bonus, and equity compensation for heads of legal ops by department size and for other legal ops roles by years of professional experience
- How gender identity, ethnicity, and professional background impact compensation
- Salary information for the top-compensated respondents
- Base salary ranges from dozens of legal ops roles posted during the survey period
About the Author
Kevin Cohn is Brightflag’s Chief Customer Officer. He has 18 years of experience in executive management at high-growth tech companies, and was responsible for corporate legal in his previous two professional roles. He has a B.S. in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University, and is a member of the Legal Operators advisory board.
Watch the Legal Operations Compensation Report Webinar
For an in-depth breakdown of the results from the 2025 report, as well as a panel discussion about the factors influencing legal operations compensation, check out the 2025 Legal Operations Compensation Report Reveal Webinar.
