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Survey of GC Pay Finds Higher Salaries, Lower Bonuses

By Catherine Dunn
February 26, 2013

General counsel at major corporations saw their base salaries climb, even as cash bonus awards fell in the last year, according to the latest compensation benchmarking figures from the Association of Corporate Counsel, available at www.accempsight.com/.

The in-house trade organization, together with the consultancy Empsight International, surveyed the top lawyers at 190 companies with average revenues of $31.7 billion in its 2012 Large Law Department Compensation Survey. Participants included companies such as Nike Inc., The Coca-Cola Company, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, and Time Warner Inc.

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