law schools ranked by salary

The average salary of a graduating class does not indicate the actual prestige i.e. ranking of that law school. For instance, thecost of living in cities like San Francisco and New York is higher and the salaries reflect this. Most law schools have graduates that tend to work in one geographic location. Like any other professional field certain practice areas and types of law firms are more lucrative than others. In addition, graduates from top schools find it easier to obtain associate positions at large firms that tend to pay much more than the small and medium size firms where lower tiered law graduates earn associate positions.

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Rank	Law School	Salary
1 (tie)	UC Berkley	$160,000
1 (tie)	Northwestern University	160,000
1 (tie)	Georgetown University	160,000
1 (tie)	Fordham University	160,000
2 (tie)	Yale	145,000
2 (tie)	University of Virginia	145,000
2 (tie)	New York University	145,000
2 (tie)	Cornell	145,000
3 (tie)	William & Mary	135,000
3 (tie)	University of Southern Cal.	135,000
3 (tie)	University of Pennsylvania	135,000
3 (tie)	University of Michigan	135,000
3 (tie)	University of Chicago	135,000
3 (tie)	Stanford University	135,000
3 (tie)	Harvard	135,000
3 (tie)	Duke University	135,000
3 (tie)	Boston University	135,000
4 (tie)	Washington Univ. in St. Louis	130,000
4 (tie)	UC Los Angeles	130,000
4 (tie)	Howard University	130,000
5	UC Hastings	128,488
6 (tie)	University of Illinois	125,000
6 (tie)	Columbia University	125,000
6 (tie)	Boston College	125,000
7	Benjamin N. Cardozo, Yeshiva Univ.	124,174
8	George Washington	123,549
9	George Mason Univ.	120,000
10 (tie)	Vanderbilt University	115,000
10 (tie)	Tulane University	115,000
10 (tie)	Rutgers University - Newark	115,000
10 (tie)	Emory University	115,000
11	SMU Dedman	114,037

Rank	Law School	Salary
12	Univ. of Texas	$113,000
13	Seton Hall Univ.	110,276
14	Univ. of Washington	110,094
15 (tie)	Washington and Lee	110,000
15 (tie)	Santa Clara University	110,000
16	Brigham Young Univ.	109,354
17	Temple Univ.	108,303
18	Notre Dame	105,451
19	University of Wisconsin	105,000
20	Brooklyn Law School	104,000
21	University of Miami	103,500
22 (tie)	Villanova University	100,000
22 (tie)	University of Minnesota	100,000
22 (tie)	University of Georgia	100,000
23	Rutgers - Newark	98,000
24	Ohio State University	96,559
25 (tie)	University of North Carolina	95,000
25 (tie)	University of Iowa	95,000
25 (tie)	Franklin Pierece	95,000
26	UC Davis	93,274
27 (tie)	Southern University	92,500
27 (tie)	New York Law School	92,500
28	University of San Diego	91,020
29 (tie)	University of Cincinnati	90,000
29 (tie)	University of Arizona	90,000
29 (tie)	Pepperdine University	90,000
30	Syracuse University	89,700
31 (tie)	Northeastern University	87,500
31 (tie)	American University	87,500
32	Hofstra University	86,000
33 (tie)	University of Maryland	85,000
33 (Tie)	University of Akron	85,000

Rank	Law School	Salary
33 (tie)	Texas Southern University	$85,000
33 (tie)	Indiana University	85,000
34	University of the Pacific, McGeorge	83,667
35	University of Tennessee	83,300
36 (tie)	University of Houston	80,000
36 (tie)	University of Florida	80,000
36 (tie)	University of Colorado	80,000
36 (tie)	The Catholic University of America	80,000
36 (tie)	St. John's University	80,000
36 (tie)	Loyola Marymount University (CA)	80,000
37	South Texas College of Law	79,000
38 (tie)	Wake Forest University	77,000
38 (tie)	Texas Tech University	77,000
39	Pace University	76,167
40 (tie)	University of Pittsburgh	75,000
40 (tie)	University of Nevada, Las Vegas	75,000
40 (tie)	Stetson University	75,000
40 (tie)	Southwestern Law School	75,000
40 (tie)	Loyola University (Chicago)	75,000
40 (tie)	Chicago-Kent Col. of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology	75,000
40 (tie)	Case Western Reserve University	75,000
41	Arizona State University	74,598
42	Baylor University	74,247
43	University of Connecticut	74,000
44	University of Hawaii	72,500
45 (tie)	Whittier Law School	70,000
45 (tie)	Suffolk University	70,000
45 (tie)	Georgia State University	75,000
45 (tie)	Chapman University	75,000
46	Mercer University	68,661
47	University of Alabama	68,353
48	University of Richmond	68,158