[EDITOR'S NOTE: This is part IV in an ongoing series rolling out exclusive data on compensation in the legal departments of large U.S. companies and the salary range for in-house lawyers. Jump to part I: Want the Salary Range for In-House Lawyers? Here You Go, part II: The In-House Salary Range: Not a Good Time to Be One of the Little Guys or part III: In-House Salary Range Breakdown: A Bad Time to Be the Chief Legal Officer.]

For weeks now, CorpCounsel.com has been breaking down the numbers from ALM’s “Law Department Compensation Benchmarking Survey, 2010 Edition.”