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No. Law School State Median Salary Private Median Salary Public
50 U. of Colorado-Boulder CO $90,000 $55,000
50 U. of Georgia GA $90,000 $50,000
53 U. of San Diego CA $85,000 $72,000
53 Suffolk University MA $85,000 $61,200
53 Baylor University TX $85,000 $61,105
53 U. of Hawaii HI $85,000 $60,636
53 U. of Connecticut CT $85,000 $60,000
53 U. of Richmond VA $85,000 $54,000
53 Washington and Lee U. VA $85,000 $51,450
53 Drexel University (Kline) PA $85,000 $48,500
61 Wayne State U. MI $84,000 $55,000
61 U. of Utah (SJ Quinney) UT $84,000 $51,815
63 Golden Gate University CA $82,000 $90,518
63 Arizona State University AZ $82,000 $58,500
65 Loyola U. Chicago IL $80,500 $60,000
66 U. of San Francisco CA $80,000 $71,000
66 U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champ. IL $80,000 $65,000
66 U. of Nevada-Las Vegas NV $80,000 $62,000
66 Georgia State University GA $80,000 $55,000
66 Temple University (Beasley) PA $80,000 $52,000
66 Penn State U. (University Park) PA $80,000 $51,106
66 Louisiana State-Baton Rouge LA $80,000 $49,500
66 Villanova University PA $80,000 $48,847
74 St. John's University NY $79,000 $62,500
75 Loyola Law School CA $78,000 $65,900
75 Ohio State University (Moritz) OH $78,000 $55,000
77 U. of Denver CO $77,500 $56,676
78 U. of Cincinnati OH $77,000 $54,000
79 IIT Chicago-Kent IL $75,750 $60,210
80 U. of the Pacific (McGeorge) CA $75,500 $64,800
81 Pepperdine University CA $75,000 $64,500
81 New England Sch. of Law MA $75,000 $60,000
81 Chapman University CA $75,000 $59,250
81 Michigan State University MI $75,000 $54,000
81 U. of Oregon OR $75,000 $52,736
81 Wake Forest University NC $75,000 $48,561
81 U. of Florida (Levin) FL $75,000 $45,000
81 U. of Miami FL $75,000 $45,000
89 Seattle University WA $73,750 $56,000
90 Albany Law School Union U. NY $73,000 $59,000
91 South Texas College of Law TX $72,500 $62,000
91 Pace University NY $72,500 $60,000
91 Western State University CA $72,500 $50,000
94 U. of Wisconsin-Madison WI $71,000 $49,254
95 U. of the District of Columbia DC $70,000 $78,500
95 Texas A&M University TX $70,000 $63,500
95 Hofstra University NY $70,000 $61,000
95 Cardozo-Yeshiva University NY $70,000 $60,000
95 U. of Kansas KS $70,000 $56,000
95 Quinnipiac University CT $70,000 $55,000
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About the 2020 Law School Rankings by Median Salary

Published in spring 2019, the salary statistics in PublicLegal's 2020 Raw Data Law School Rankings by Median Salary report are those of full-time, long-term employed law graduates for the class of 2017 at the time of graduation and within ten months after graduation (approximately spring 2018), as self-reported by the graduates.

The salaries indicated under the heading “Median Salary Private” reflect those salaries of the 50th  percentile, among those graduates working in private practice as law firm associates. The salaries indicated under the heading “Median Salary Public” reflect those salaries of the 50th  percentile, among those graduates working in government jobs or judicial clerkships at the federal or state level.

In determining median salaries, jobs classified as “JD advantage” have been excluded (i.e.,  positions in which the employer requires a JD or considers it an advantage to hold such a degree, but in which admission to the bar is not required).

The rationale behind entitling this report as the “2020” report is that our 2020 Law School Rankings report and 2020 Law School Profiles are of considerable interest to prospective law school applicants who seek to enroll in classes commencing in fall 2020. At the time of our publication of this report in spring 2019, these employment statistics reflected the most current data available.


Source: The data have been compiled from a variety of sources, including from data released publicly by the law schools.

Next Release: Our 2021 report is slated for publication in spring 2020.