OEWS Ranked
Highest Paying Legal Jobs
Legal occupation wages are highly bimodal — large-firm and specialized counsel sit far above the median attorney. Prefer medians and percentiles on each salary page over the mean alone.
$186,845
Top mean wage
$174,283
List average
4
Occupations ranked
National ranking
Click any occupation for state-level salaries, percentiles, and real (cost-of-living adjusted) pay.
| $186,845 | $185,840 | $90 | 770,940 | |
| $184,919 | $183,890 | $89 | 784,240 | |
| $181,540 | $180,510 | $87 | 833,870 | |
| $143,830 | $143,830 | $69 | 24,030 |
Methodology
SOC major group 23 (Legal Occupations), ranked by national mean annual wage from BLS OEWS.
Full documentation: Wage Atlas methodology and data sources.