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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.
Ing tengah-tengahé ana wangun tengah, kang diarani tengah tengah.
Taun-taun latihan, full time. Part time luwih dawa.
Taun-taun bayaran prémium perlu kanggo nutupi biaya iku. Ora wulan nganti sampeyan ana ing ngarep total - wektu latihan ing ndhuwur teka pisanan.
Sumber: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · tampilan
Apa kang dadi angka biaya, lan apa kang ora
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.
Kadospundi kathah tiyang ingkang gadhah punika, lan kadospundi kathah tiyang ingkang damel ing lapangan
Apa ana kang entuk iki saben taun
42,496 bar examination sittings that resulted in a pass — 2025, February and July 2025 examinations combined.
Ing taun iki, angkané wis tekan 100%. Iki ya iku aliran taunan - wong kang nampa kredensial ing siji taun. Angka- angka kerja iku saham kang tetep, saben wong kang kerja ing profesi ing wektu kang padha. Nggawa aliran dadi saham ngasilaké angka kang maca kaya tingkat pagawean lan ora siji. Nalika kita ngandhut jumlah sing tetep saka pamegang kredensial kita nerbitaké saham sing digawé; ing kene kita ora duwe siji, mula kita nerbitaké aliran lan ndhaptar.
Apa kang kalebu ing pangukuran: 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) · tampilan
Apa kang kelakon marang wong-wong kang wis rampung latihan
4 taun sadurungé, saka Federal records
Saka 40,840 wong kang rampung Law (JD), first professional degree lan ora sinau maneh4taun sawisé, 1,860 ora duwe penghasilan ing rekaman — 4.6%. Ing jaman biyèn, wong-wong padha nglampahi upacara-upacara adat. $107,773, karo setengah tengah antarané $75,568 lan $176,111.
Ing basa Inggris, "non-profit" tegesé "non-pendapatan". Kados ta:
Apa kang diwaca ing kode program: 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.
Siapa ing kohort: Completors kang nampa federal siswa bantuan - kira-kira setengah saka AS undergraduates, lan setengah liyane ora diukur ing kene. Wong kang pindhah menyang sinau luwih iku ing ora ing kolom. Departemen suppresses institusi karo cohorts banget cilik kanggo publikasi lan nambahake statistik noise kanggo sisa, supaya iki asumsi liwat institusi cukup gedhe kanggo laporan: 163 saka wong-wong mau, pulih 97.0% ing angka nasional Departemen piyambak kanggé program punika. Nglempar program laporan paling cilik nglebur laju kanthi 0.0 % 1 poin
Sumber: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · tampilan · angka kang padha kanggo saben program kang bisa kita publikasi
Apa kang bisa ditindakake
Gaji punika kanggé damel, boten kanggé kredensial. Ingkang punika kanggé damel ingkang dipunperlukan.
| Tugas | Apa iku dibutuhaké? | Median | Digunakaké |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawyers | Legally required to hold the job | $159,670 | 754,500 |
Dhèwèké dadi anggota Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat lan Anggota Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat, lan dadi anggota DPR, wiwit taun 2014.
Apa iku bayaran kanggo dhèwèké?
Tugas iki nglumpukaké bayaran median saka $159,670. Median-weighted kerja ing saben profesi kita publish iku $50,020, dadi premium kanggo ngadhepi iki iku bab $109,650 taun sadurungé pajak.
Ing jaman saiki, ora ana sing bisa nganggep iku minangka karya sastra. Apa garis dasar iku, lan apa kang dipisahake
Dhèwèké uga dadi juru main bal-balan. Saben angka payback ing situs iki dikondicionaké kanggo digawé ing kerja. Ya iku asumsi kang kredensial-pemegang count ing ndhuwur ana kanggo tes, lan iku asumsi saben payback situs liya ora disengaja.
Apa sing sampeyan butuhake sadurunge miwiti
- A bachelor's degree
- A place at an ABA-accredited law school
- A pass in the state bar examination
- A character and fitness review
Aja nindakake iki yen
- 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
Sedaya kredensial, miturut periode payback · Carane iki dikalkulake · Nglebuké sapérangan liyane