Re: \"major in anything and go to law school\"
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Why focus so much on the income following graduation and not on the income you can make over the next 25+ yrs as an attorney vs alternative career?
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This is correct. If you're a decent attorney, your salary grows quickly relative to other fields. The firm I clerked for during school (smaller firm, 10 attorneys) hires at 60k, but in less than three years the salary is around 85k. That's still not a lot, but that's an associate salary, and it doesn't include bonuses, which over the past three years have ranged from 10k to 20k, one year including an extra 15k following a settlement in a big case.
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