City of Philadelphia / Law Law Department / Senior Attorney
Job-title file
Provide legal advice, draft and review documents, and represent the agency in legal matters.
83 employees hold this title in Law Law Department. Median total compensation for the role is $28,347, above the department median of $19,888.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 83 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area, the median wage for Lawyers — about 19,040 people — is $170,660. Law Law Department pays a median base salary of $28,347 for this role, 83% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Lawyers across every employer in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Law Law Department’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Lawyers — about 754,500 people — is $159,670. Law Law Department’s median base salary is 82% below that national figure, below the 10th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 69 of 83 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Law Law Department is $28,347, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 6 jurisdictions. In City of Philadelphia, the median of $28,347 ranks #6 of 6. See Senior Attorney across all of City of Philadelphia →
Median total compensation for comparable Senior Attorneyroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Senior Attorney/Law Law Department
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Christine Bak is a Senior Attorney at Law Law Department. They work salaried. 2022 total compensation came to $136,362.
Senior Attorney/Law Law Department
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At Law Law Department, Karen Rompala serves as a Senior Attorney. They work salaried. Their 2021 pay totaled $123,512.
Senior Attorney/Law Law Department
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Daniel Cantu-Hertzler holds the role of Senior Attorney at Law Law Department. Their status is salaried. In 2025, their total compensation was $118,016.