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I know a programmer who became a lawyer (in Netherlands). It lifted his hourly rate 10x (50->500 EUR/hour), and while not all time is paid, and he isn't working

I know a programmer who became a lawyer (in Netherlands). It lifted his hourly rate 10x (50->500 EUR/hour), and while not all time is paid, and he isn't working full time having a lot of time to spare, he's getting like 2x than before.

_yosefk 14y ago
That's rather nice indeed; I think the mean earnings for lawyers aren't that high and there's quite a lot of variance, not? (Unfortunately, this is a theoretical discussion for me, since I'd make a lousy lawyer.)
- pfedor 14y ago
  The starting salary distribution for a lawyer is an interesting graph: http://www.nalp.org/salarydistrib http://www.nalp.org/salarydistrib Basically, after graduating from a law school you either get hired by a good law firm or not. In the former case, which happens to some 20% of graduates, your starting salary will be $160k. In the latter case your salary will be dictated by an unexciting distribution with the peak around $50k.