BigLaw firms in San Diego, CA
Every firm in our directory with an office in San Diego, CA, best-known first, with first-year pay and where it comes from.
- Firms
- 29
- Offices
- 29
- Median first-year base
- $225,000
29 firms in San Diego, CA
- Vault #4Latham & Watkins LLP
Office here · AmLaw #2
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #11Sidley Austin LLP
Office here · AmLaw #6
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #21Paul Hastings LLP
Office here · AmLaw #22
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #22Cooley LLP
Office here · AmLaw #24
$255,000+
- Vault #26Jones Day
Office here · AmLaw #15
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #27Morrison & Foerster LLP
Office here · AmLaw #42
$225,000+
Confirmed by the firm
- Vault #34Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.
Office here · AmLaw #37
$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 #55Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Office here · AmLaw #17
Varies by office
- Vault #60Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Office here · AmLaw #65
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #62Dentons US LLP
Office here · AmLaw #18
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #66Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Office here · AmLaw #47
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #72Troutman Pepper Locke LLP
Office here · AmLaw #33
$235,000+
Announced by the firm (Sep 2026)
- Vault #77Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Office here · AmLaw #83
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of 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 #88Cozen O'Connor P.C.
Office here · AmLaw #80
$180,000 - $215,000
Reported to Chambers Associate (Sep 2026)
- Vault #94Duane Morris LLP
Office here · AmLaw #84
$215,000
Reported to Chambers Associate (Sep 2026)
- Vault #98Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP
Office here
$225,000
- Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Office here · AmLaw #78
Pay not published - Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP
Office here · AmLaw #74
Up to $166,000
- Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
Office here · AmLaw #70
Pay not published - Jackson Lewis P.C.
Office here · AmLaw #79
Pay not published - Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP
Office here · AmLaw #72
Pay not published - Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Office here · AmLaw #60
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 - Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Office here · AmLaw #76
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 San Diego, CA
First-year base
$225,000
Median across the firms here
Estimated take-home
$149,302
After federal, state and local income tax, single filer
Same lifestyle in New York
$282,383
What you’d need there; cost-of-living index here is 149 (US average 100)