BigLaw firms in Austin, TX
Every firm in our directory with an office in Austin, TX, best-known first, with first-year pay and where it comes from.
- Firms
- 33
- Offices
- 33
- Median first-year base
- $225,000
33 firms in Austin, TX
- Vault #4Latham & Watkins LLP
Office here · AmLaw #2
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #6Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Office here · AmLaw #1
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #14Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
Office here · AmLaw #20
$235,000+
Announced by the firm (Sep 2026)
- Vault #15Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Office here · AmLaw #29
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #24Ashurst Perkins Coie LLP
Office here · AmLaw #51
$255,000+
- Vault #27Morrison & Foerster LLP
Office here · AmLaw #42
$225,000+
Confirmed by the firm
- Vault #28O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Office here · AmLaw #57
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #34Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.
Office here · AmLaw #37
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #36King & Spalding LLP
Office here · AmLaw #23
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #40Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Office here · AmLaw #34
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #42DLA Piper LLP (US)
Office here · AmLaw #3
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #46McDermott Will & Schulte LLP
Office here · AmLaw #16
$255,000+
- Vault #48Holland & Knight LLP
Office here · AmLaw #26
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #51Dechert LLP
Office here · AmLaw #39
$255,000+
- Vault #53Vinson & Elkins LLP
Office here · AmLaw #58
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #54Baker Botts L.L.P.
Office here · AmLaw #75
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #55Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Office here · AmLaw #17
Varies by office
- Vault #56A&O Shearman LLP
Office here
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #57Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
Office here · AmLaw #19
$235,000+
Confirmed by the firm
- Vault #60Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Office here · AmLaw #65
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #68McGuireWoods LLP
Office here · AmLaw #54
$215,000
- Vault #81Haynes and Boone, LLP
Office here · AmLaw #85
$225,000
Reported to Chambers Associate (Sep 2026)
- Vault #83Gunderson Dettmer LLP
Office here
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #84Fish & Richardson P.C.
Office here
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #93Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Office here · AmLaw #64
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #94Duane Morris LLP
Office here · AmLaw #84
$215,000
Reported to Chambers Associate (Sep 2026)
- Vault #95Akerman LLP
Office here · AmLaw #96
$215,000
- Vault #96Husch Blackwell LLP
Office here · AmLaw #82
$200,000
- Vault #98Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP
Office here
$225,000
- Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
Office here · AmLaw #70
Pay not published - Jackson Lewis P.C.
Office here · AmLaw #79
Pay not published - Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Office here · AmLaw #77
Pay not published - Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
Office here · AmLaw #94
Pay not published
Pay shows first-year base; see each firm's profile for sources and dates. How we source data
Pay and cost of living in Austin, TX
First-year base
$225,000
Median across the firms here
Estimated take-home
$166,769
After federal, state and local income tax, single filer
Same lifestyle in New York
$379,054
What you’d need there; cost-of-living index here is 111 (US average 100)