Kridencial
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.
Koliko stane, če dobimo srednji del dosega.
Meseci treninga, polni delovni čas, traja več časa.
Meseci premije za plačilo, ki so potrebni za pokritje teh stroškov. Ne meseci, dokler ne napredujete na splošno – čas usposabljanja je prvi.
Vir: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · pogled
Kakšna je ta cena in kaj ni
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.
Koliko ljudi to drži in koliko dela na terenu
Koliko zaslužijo to leto
42,496 bar examination sittings that resulted in a pass — 2025, February and July 2025 examinations combined.
Tega ne bomo spremenili v odstotek. To je letni tok – ljudje, ki so zaslužili uverljivost v enem letu. Številke zaposlovanja so stalna zaloga, vsi, ki delajo na delovnem mestu naenkrat. Razdelitev toka v zalogo ustvarja število, ki se bere kot stopnja zaposlitve in ni ena. Kadar imamo stalno število zasluženih lastnikov, objavimo zaposleni delež; tukaj ga nimamo, zato objavimo tok in ustavimo.
Kaj to pomeni?: 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) · pogled
Kaj se je zgodilo z ljudmi, ki so končali usposabljanje?
Štiri leta po zaključku, iz zvezne evidence.
od 40,840 osebe, ki so končali Law (JD), first professional degree in niso več študiral štiri leta kasneje, 1,860 ni imel nobenih zaslužkov v zapisniku, sploh ni imel; 4.6%. Tisti, ki so delali, so si zaslužili mediano $107,773, z srednjo polovico med $75,568 in $176,111.
‚Nobena zaslužek v zapisniku‘ ni ‚nezaposlena‘. Ukrep je odsotnost kakršne koli pozitivne plače in pozitivnega dohodka od samozaposlenosti za celo leto. Nihče ni bil vprašan, ali želijo delati, zato je grof zadržal ljudi, ki so izbirno zapustili delovno silo – vzgajanje otrok, skrbenje, potovanje, življenje na dohodek nekoga drugega, selitev v tujino – poleg vseh, ki so hoteli službo in niso imeli nobenega. Nihče ne objavlja razdeljenega dela, ki ga ne bomo ugajali. Ugotovlja, koliko ljudi je to usposabljanje končalo in niso zaslužili ničesar od tega ali od česar koli drugega štiri leta naprej, kar vam ne more povedati natančno tisto, kar vam je zgoraj navedeno.
Kaj zajema ta koda programa: 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.
Kdo je v kohorti: Dopolnilci, ki so prejeli zvezno študentsko pomoč – približno polovica študentov iz ZDA, in druga polovica pa niso izmerjeni tukaj. Ljudje, ki so nadaljevali študij, niso v nobenem stolpcu. Oddelek zavira institucije z premajhnimi kohorti, da bi objavili in dodajali statistični hrup drugim, tako da je to vsota nad institucijami dovolj velika, da poročajo: 163 od njih, okrevanje 97.0% nacionalnim računom ministrstva za ta program. Odpoved najmanjših programov poročanja premika stopnjo za 0.0 odstotne točke.
Vir: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · pogled · enaka številka za vsak program, ki ga lahko objavimo
Kaj ti omogoča, da počneš
Plačilo je delo, ne pa uverenje, ampak poklic, za katerega te kvalificira.
| Job | Je to potrebno? | Mediana | Zaposleni |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawyers | Legally required to hold the job | $159,670 | 754,500 |
Mediana plače in zaposlovanja: BLS Statistika poklicnega zaposlovanja in plače, maj 2025.
Ali se sama plača?
Naloga, ki jo odklene, plača mediano $159,670. Mediana, prilagojena zaposlitvi, je v vsakem poklicu, ki ga objavimo, $50,020, Torej je premija za držanje tega gre za $109,650 leto pred davkom.
Preberite to kot primerjavo s povprečnim delom, ne pa s svojim delom. Kaj je ta izhodišče in kaj izpusti iz sebe?
In domneva, da dobiš službo. Vsaka odplačilo na tej strani je pogojen z najemom v delo. To je domneva, da je zgornji prevzemnik-imetnik obstaja za testiranje, in to je predpostavka, da vsak drugi plačilni kraj tiho.
Kaj potrebujete, preden začnete
- A bachelor's degree
- A place at an ABA-accredited law school
- A pass in the state bar examination
- A character and fitness review
Ne storite tega, če
- 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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