BigLaw firms in Seattle, WA
Every firm in our directory with an office in Seattle, WA, best-known first, with first-year pay and where it comes from.
- Firms
- 28
- Offices
- 28
- Median first-year base
- $225,000
28 firms in Seattle, WA
- Vault #14Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
Office here · AmLaw #20
$235,000+
Announced by the firm (Sep 2026)
- Vault #19Susman Godfrey LLP
Office here · AmLaw #92
$240,000+
Announced by the firm (Sep 2026)
- Vault #22Cooley LLP
Office here · AmLaw #24
$255,000+
- 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 #32Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Office here · AmLaw #53
$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 #37Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Office here · AmLaw #11
$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 #48Holland & Knight LLP
Office here · AmLaw #26
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #49K&L Gates LLP
Office here · AmLaw #48
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #63Baker & Hostetler LLP
Office here · AmLaw #59
$215,000
- Vault #68McGuireWoods LLP
Office here · AmLaw #54
$215,000
- Vault #71Fenwick & West LLP
Office here · AmLaw #69
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #74Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Founded here · Office here · AmLaw #90
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #76Fox Rothschild LLP
Office here · AmLaw #71
$205,000
Reported to Chambers Associate (Sep 2026)
- Vault #88Cozen O'Connor P.C.
Office here · AmLaw #80
$180,000 - $215,000
Reported to Chambers Associate (Sep 2026)
- Vault #89Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Office here · AmLaw #63
$225,000+
Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)
- Vault #92Ballard Spahr LLP
Office here · AmLaw #89
$210,000
- Vault #100Littler Mendelson P.C.
Office here · AmLaw #62
$225,000
- Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Office here · AmLaw #99
Pay not published - 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 - Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Office here · AmLaw #77
Pay not published - Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
Office here · AmLaw #93
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 Seattle, WA
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
$282,383
What you’d need there; cost-of-living index here is 149 (US average 100)