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February 07, 2007
Starting Salaries
Every summer, NALP publishes Starting Salaries: What New Law Graduates Earn. These publications are available in the CSO Resource Library -- please stop by and take a look.
We thought you might like to know a bit about starting salaries for the Class of 2005 (Class of 2006 data won't be available until the summer) in a variety of cities of interest to you: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Washington, DC. We are providing median salaries for firms of different size ranges. For averages, salary ranges, and more, we urge you to come in and review the publication!
Median salary at firms with 2-10 attorneys/ 11-25 attorneys/ 26-50 attorneys/ 51-100 attorneys/ 101-250 attorneys/ 251+ attorneys:
Atlanta: 62,500/75,000/75,000/75,000/100,000/100,000
Boston: 50,000/59,000/75,000/80,000/125,000/125,000
Chicago: 50,000/ 56,250/70,000/100,000/125,000/110,000
Cleveland: 40,000/75,000/77,500/86,250/95,000/110,000
Columbus: 48,000/ 73,000/no data/90,000/92,500/100,000
LA: 65,000/ 72,000/95,000/80,000/125,000/125,000
NYC: 52,250/65,000/65,000/100,000/125,000/125,000
Philadelphia: 50,000/70,000/65,000/71,000/105,000/115,000
Pittsburgh: 60,000/45,000/62,500/80,000/100,000/110,000
DC: 60,000/85,000/105,000/125,000/125,000/125,000
This publication does not give government salaries by city, but does by state. Some median starting salaries for government jobs in select states: 56K in California, 54K in Washington DC; 51K in Arizona; 49K in New York; 46K in Georgia; 44,500 in Pennsylvania; 43,000 in Michigan; 42,500 in Ohio; 39,000 in Florida; 38,000 in North Carolina; and 35,000 in Massachusetts.
NEXT WEDNESDAY -- INFO ON PUBLIC INTEREST SALARIES!!!
Posted by smp20 at February 7, 2007 10:54 AM