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No. Law School State Median Salary Private Median Salary Public
135 U. of Arkansas-Little Rock AR $60,000 $60,000
152 U. of Michigan-Ann Arbor MI $180,000 $60,210
152 U. of Houston TX $90,000 $60,210
152 IIT Chicago-Kent IL $75,750 $60,210
155 Boston College MA $180,000 $60,223
156 U. of Wyoming WY $50,000 $60,451
157 Northwestern University IL $180,000 $60,518
158 U. of Hawaii HI $85,000 $60,636
159 New York Law School NY $100,000 $61,000
159 Hofstra University NY $70,000 $61,000
161 Baylor University TX $85,000 $61,105
162 Suffolk University MA $85,000 $61,200
163 U. of Pennsylvania PA $180,000 $61,218
164 Fordham University NY $180,000 $61,250
165 U. of Virginia VA $180,000 $62,000
165 Santa Clara University CA $100,000 $62,000
165 U. of Nevada-Las Vegas NV $80,000 $62,000
165 South Texas College of Law TX $72,500 $62,000
169 St. John's University NY $79,000 $62,500
170 Yale University CT $180,000 $62,591
171 U. of Chicago IL $180,000 $63,000
172 Texas A&M University TX $70,000 $63,500
173 Cornell University NY $180,000 $64,228
174 Pepperdine University CA $75,000 $64,500
175 U. of the Pacific (McGeorge) CA $75,500 $64,800
176 U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champ. IL $80,000 $65,000
177 Stanford University CA $180,000 $65,228
178 Vanderbilt University TN $180,000 $65,287
179 Loyola Law School CA $78,000 $65,900
180 California Western CA $67,500 $66,812
181 U. of San Francisco CA $80,000 $71,000
182 U. of San Diego CA $85,000 $72,000
183 U. of the District of Columbia DC $70,000 $78,500
184 Golden Gate University CA $82,000 $90,518
185 Lincoln Memorial U. TN $45,500 N/A
186 Appalachian School of Law VA N/A N/A
187 Arizona Summit Law School AZ N/A N/A
188 Atlanta's John Marshall Law GA N/A N/A
189 Barry University FL N/A N/A
190 Charlotte School of Law NC N/A N/A
191 Indiana U.-Indianapolis IN N/A N/A
192 Mitchell Hamline MN N/A N/A
193 Southern University LA N/A N/A
194 Texas Southern University TX N/A N/A
195 U. of Arizona (Rogers) AZ N/A N/A
196 U. of New Hampshire NH N/A N/A
197 U. of North Dakota ND N/A N/A
198 Valparaiso University IN N/A N/A
199 Western Michigan (Cooley) MI N/A N/A
200 Whittier Law School CA N/A N/A
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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.