The State of the Legal Profession? Forum

[narfkarta]

https://lawsalaries.blogspot.com/

[acr]

Depressing. And to do shitty work too.

[zot1]

Muted.

[narfkarta]

It's a sad state of affairs

[it'sjustme]

I'm not able to infer the state of the entire legal profession from four CL job postings stretching coast-to-coast.

[narfkarta]

It looks like it keeps updating and all over the US

[84651846190]

Law school enrollment needs to drop by about 50%.

[SixSigma]

Law school enrollment needs to drop by about 50%.

Sounds great. Anything to skew the odds in my favor.

http://www.nalp.org/salarydistrib

...based on 22,095 salaries reported for full-time jobs lasting a year or more. A few salaries above $205,000 are excluded from the graph for clarity, but not from the percentage calculations. The left-hand peaks of the graph reflect salaries of $40,000 to $65,000, which collectively accounted for about half of reported salaries. The right-hand peak shows that salaries of $160,000 accounted for about 17% of reported salaries. However, more complete salary coverage for jobs at large law firms heightens this peak and diminishes the left-hand peaks — and shows that the unadjusted mean overstates the average starting salary by just over 6%. Nonetheless, as both the arithmetic mean and the adjusted mean show, relatively few salaries are close to either mean. For purposes of this graph, all reported salaries were rounded to the nearest $5,000.

[narfkarta]

The blog got mentioned in Above the Law: http://abovethelaw.com/2016/11/3-depres ... -salaries/

[narfkarta]

My God this blog keeps updating every few days

[zot1]

Is this your blog?

[narfkarta]

No but I subscribed to the email updates.

[zot1]

I'm pretty sure it's your blog.

[MKC]

I'm pretty sure it's your blog.

[narfkarta]

This might be the most absurd one in a way: https://lawsalaries.blogspot.com/2017/0 ... d-non.html