The starting salary distribution for a lawyer is an interesting graph: http://www.nalp.org/salarydistrib http://www.nalp.org/salarydistrib Basically, after gra

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.