Kredentziak
Law licence (law degree and bar exam)
The most expensive credential on this site by a wide margin, leading to the best-paid occupation on it. Three years, six figures of debt, and a national exam that 37% of sittings fail.
Erdialdekoa:
Hilabeteak entrenatzen, denbora osoan, eta denbora partzialean gehiago.
Kostu hori estali ahal izateko ordaindu beharreko hilabeteak. Ez hilabeteak, orokorrean aurreratu arte — goiko prestakuntza-denbora lehenago dator.
Iturburua: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · ikuspegia
Zer den kostu-zenbaki hori, eta zer ez den
Six figures, and this is only the borrowed part. That range is median cumulative FEDERAL LOAN DEBT at completion, not a tuition sticker price and not total cost. It is what completers actually borrowed, so it excludes grants, savings, family money, employer funding and living costs — which makes it a FLOOR on what the credential costs, never a ceiling. The low and high figures are the 25th and 75th percentiles across the institutions that report a figure for this programme, so a quarter of institutions sit below the low end. College Scorecard pools two award years into each figure; the release used here is dated 10 June 2026.
Three years full time for the degree, after a bachelor's, then a bar examination and a character-and-fitness review before admission. Part-time programmes run four years.
Admission is per state and each maintains its own continuing legal education requirement and annual fees.
Zenbat pertsonak daukate hau, eta zenbat ari dira lanean eremuan?
Zenbat irabazten dute urtero?
42,496 bar examination sittings that resulted in a pass — 2025, February and July 2025 examinations combined.
Ez dugu ehuneko bat bihurtzen. Hau urteko fluxua da - urte batean kredentziala lortu duten pertsonak. Enplegu-zifrak stock iraunkorra dira, lanpostuan aldi berean lan egiten duten guztiak. Fluxu bat stock batean zatitzean kontratazio-tasa bezala irakurtzen den zenbaki bat sortzen da, eta ez da bat. Kredentzien edukitzaileen zenbaketa iraunkorra egiten dugunean, enplegu-kuota argitaratzen dugu; hemen ez dugu bat, beraz fluxua argitaratzen dugu eta gelditzen gara.
Zenbat zenbatzen duen: 67,442 people sat a US bar examination in 2025 and 42,496 passed, a 63% pass rate. It counts SITTINGS rather than people: someone who failed in February and passed in July appears in both columns, and someone admitted in two states can appear twice. It is a one-year flow and not a count of anyone holding a licence to practise today.
The American Bar Association publishes a standing count of US lawyers — about 1.37 million in 2025 — but only rounded to two decimal places of a million, and its underlying survey PDF is not publicly retrievable. We use the exact bar-exam flow rather than a rounded stock, which means this page shows how many qualify each year and no percentage.
National Conference of Bar Examiners, 2025 Statistics — Persons Taking and Passing the Bar Examination (People newly credentialed during one year) · ikuspegia
Zer gertatu zitzaien entrenamendua bukatu zutenei?
Lau urte geroago, erregistro federaletatik
Edo 40,840 amaitu zuten pertsonak Law (JD), first professional degree eta lau urte geroago ez zuten ikasten, 1,860 ez zuen inolako diru-sarrerarik erregistratu — 4.6%. Lan egiten zutenek 1.000 euroko batez bestekoa irabazten zuten. $107,773, erdiko erdia artean $75,568 eta $176,111.
"Ez dago dirurik" ez da "lanposturik ez" esan nahi. Neurria urte osoan soldata-erregistrorik ez izatea da, ezta lan-eginkizunen bidezko diru-sarrera positiborik ere. Inork ez zuen galdetu lan egin nahi ote zuen, beraz, zenbaketak barne hartzen ditu lan-merkatutik alde egin zuten pertsonak —umeak hazi, zainketa lanak egin, bidaiatu, besteren diru-sarreraz bizi, atzerrira joan— eta lan egin nahi zuten eta lan bat ez zuten guztiak. Inork ez du banaketa argitaratzen, eta ez dugu asmatuko. Egiaztatzen duena da zenbat pertsonak amaitu zuten prestakuntza eta lau urte geroago ez zuten ezer irabazten, ez lanetik ez beste ezeretatik, eta hori da goiko soldata-zifrak ezin dizuna esan.
Programa-kode horrek zer hartzen duen barne: CIP 22.01 at first-professional level is the Juris Doctor. The figure is about law graduates, not admitted lawyers: it counts everyone who finished the degree, including those who never sat or never passed a bar examination. That is the right population for the question "was law school worth it" and the wrong one for "how many lawyers are out of work".
This measures law graduates, not admitted lawyers: everyone who finished the degree is in it, including those who never sat or never passed a bar examination.
Nor dago koadroan: federal student aid received— roughly half of US undergraduates, and the other half is not measured here. Who went on to further study are not in either column. Department suppresses institutions with cohorts too small to publish and adds statistical noise to the remaining, so this is a sum over institutions sufficiently large to report: 163 haietako bat, berreskuratzen ari dena 97.0% Departamentuaren kontu nazionalaren zati bat programa honetarako. Txostenak emateko programa txikienak botatzeak tasa mugitzen du 0.0 ehuneko puntuak.
Iturburua: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · ikuspegia · zenbaki bera argitara dezakegun programa guztietarako.
Zer egin dezakezu
Soldata lanari dagokio, ez ziurtagiriari.
| Lan-zerrenda | Beharrezkoa da? | Mediana | Enplegatuta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawyers | Legally required to hold the job | $159,670 | 754,500 |
2015eko urtarrilaren 1ean: Enplegu eta Gizarte Politiketako sailburua, 2015eko maiatzaren 20an.
Bere burua ordaintzen du?
Honek desblokeatzen duen lanak honako honen mediana ordaintzen du: $159,670. Argitaratzen dugun lan-jarduera guztietako enplegu-pisua mediana hau da: $50,020, Beraz, hau mantentzearen prezioa 1000 dolarretan dago. $109,650 zergak ordaindu aurretik.
Irakurri hori lan arrunt batekin konparazio gisa, ez zure lanarekin. Zer den oinarri-lerro hori, eta zer uzten duen kanpoan
Eta lana lortuko duzula suposatzen du. Gune honetan ordaindu beharreko zenbateko bakoitza lanerako kontratatzearen baldintzapean dago. Hau da goiko kredentzial-jabe kopurua probatzeko sortu den suposaketa, eta beste ordainketa gune guztiek isilpean egiten duten suposaketa da.
Zer behar duzu hasi aurretik
- A bachelor's degree
- A place at an ABA-accredited law school
- A pass in the state bar examination
- A character and fitness review
Ez egin hau
- you are borrowing the full amount without a clear route to the higher-paying half of the profession — the pay distribution here is famously bimodal and the median hides it
- you assume passing is routine — 37% of bar examination sittings in 2025 did not pass
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