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.
National ranking
Click any occupation for state-level salaries, percentiles, and real (cost-of-living adjusted) pay.
Methodology
SOC major group 23 (Legal Occupations), ranked by national mean annual wage from BLS OEWS.
Full documentation: Wage Atlas methodology and data sources.