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Yup. Talked to several of my lawyer friends and they always say lawyer salaries are a bimodal distribution. There's an initial peak for all the regular run-of-
by doytch 7y ago
Yup. Talked to several of my lawyer friends and they always say lawyer salaries are a bimodal distribution.
There's an initial peak for all the regular run-of-the-mill lawyers that toil away doing most of the work, and there are a small subset that make absolute _bank_.
So essentially, there's not as many lawyers making the mean salary as you would expect compared to a job like software developer.
- jimbokun 7y agoSo what's missing is the same charts showing median instead of mean.
- paultopia 7y agoThis is correct. (Source: me, law prof.) Lots of lawyers sling wills, work for legal aid or government, etc. and don't make very much at all---probably centering around 50k. OR you could make partner at Skadden and hit 7 figures easy.