2025 Salary Benchmarking Survey Now Available

The 2025 NACUA Benchmarking Survey, the only report devoted exclusively to data on in-house higher education legal roles, is now now available for purchase! The report includes nearly 100 pages of key compensation, office budget, and staffing data. Invited participants for this year’s survey included all NACUA in-house chief legal officers at single-entity institutions and multi-campus systems.

Included in the Survey

  • Salary data for Chief Legal Officers, Deputy Chief Legal Officers, and other in-house Attorney positions
  • Institutional aggregations on updated Carnegie Classifications, institution type, total operating budget, student enrollment, geographic region, and full-time employees.
  • Attorney aggregations on number of years practicing higher education law, years as chief legal officer, gender, and specialty areas.
  • Legal office metrics on total office budget, staff size, remote work arrangements, and outside counsel spend.

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Questions

For questions or issues, please reach out to NACUA’s Director of Legal Resources, Francisco Pardo at fp@nacua.org.

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