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JB3 · #82 05-23-2018, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Shortsguy1

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$60K is fairly modest for a law grad, even if they haven't passed the bar. Please make sure your niece (or nephew) isn't selling themselves short. In CA, my bachelors degree only engineers start at around $60-$70K, and law grads would obviously make a lot more. My sister and brother-in-law are all lawyers, and I know their starting salaries out of school were $100K+, and that was many years ago.

This article from 2014 states the starting salary should be $130K-$160K.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/03/28/law-schools-whose-grads-make-the-highest-starting-salaries/#67b10cf633cb

Depends on the field of law. Many rewarding legal careers with lots of trial time are not high paying compared to commercial law.

For example i have a relative who went from a 200k a year job to a 65k a year job in a public defenders office. The difference is now she gets to actually be a lawyer and gets to go to trial all the time. Never looked back, fun rewarding job compared to the 200k a year job with only a benefit in the high pay, and otherwise awful