According to the website PayScale, the average annual starting salary for a lawyer in the US ranges from $45,585 - $173,244. This is the rate for Total Pay, which "combines base annual salary or hourly wage, bonuses, profit sharing, tips, commissions, overtime pay and other forms of cash earnings, as applicable for this job. It does not include equity (stock) compensation, cash value of retirement benefits, or the value of other non-cash benefits (e.g. healthcare)."
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Varies with the type of law, where they are practicing and dozens of other variables. $40k is a starting point, lower for public service and non-profit types, higher and much higher for corporate and specialty attorney's with additional training and skills.
That would depend on the firm hiring the lawyer
The law offers a variety of oppurtunties to be involved in many things, and the salaries have that same variety. The salary levels for attorneys vary widely. Some at the top of their graduating class from law school can start in a large private firm near $150,000 annually. Some, in public interest work can be in the $30,000 range. To view some of the variety in a lawyer's life, view the related link below.
Lawyers are subject to the same employment laws as anyone else. Federal minimum wage is currently $7.25/hr. Some states have a higher minimum.
Technically speaking, the word "salary" applies to "exempt" employees (those meeting particular criteria who are not subject to the usual laws concerning overtime, etc.). To be considered exempt, an employee must have an annual salary of at least $23,660 (as with wages, states may establish a higher minimum). There are other criteria as well, but typically any job that could reasonably be described as "lawyer" would meet them easily.
(While the above does, strictly speaking, answer the question as asked, it may be misleading: the average salary for a first-year associate in a small law firm in the US in 2007 was $68,000; for large firms it was considerably higher.)
Hi! It depends on the field you practice in.Malpractice lawyers can make over 6 figures, while small claims attorneys might earn 50,000 to 100,000.
It depends on the firm and the individual cases.
$30,000 - $120,000, depending on the city/state, what kind of work and what size/type of practice.
For an accurate picture of the job market for new lawyers read some posts of recent law school grads...
The entry level salary is $29,260. The average level salary is $47,740. The maximum level salary is $71,270. All of this is in general.
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