Nearly flat as a pancake — that’s an apt way to describe 2009 compensation compared to 2008′s for Texas general counsel who are among the highest-paid executives at their companies.

Pay packages for the chief legal officers at 49 Texas companies averaged $1,702,928 in 2009, 3.4 percent less than 2008′s average of $1,760,327 for 56 GCs at 55 large Texas companies.