More than a salary
When businesses budget for a general counsel, they tend to think about the salary. The reality is far more expensive. On top of base pay you have employer's National Insurance, pension contributions, a bonus, benefits, and the recruitment fee that brought them through the door.
The hidden costs
Then come the costs that never appear on a payslip: the months of lost productivity while the role sits vacant, the management time spent recruiting and supervising, and the risk that your new hire leaves and the whole process starts again.
Across the market, the all-in average lands close to £92,000 a year — and that is before the cost of any external legal advice they may still need to instruct.
A predictable alternative
A fractional general counsel replaces that entire picture with a single, transparent annual package — from £48,000 — with no recruitment risk and no long-term employment liability.