Sifa ya Kustahili
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.
Gharama ya kupata nusu ya safu hiyo ni ile ya katikati.
Miezi mingi ya mazoezi, yaani, muda mrefu zaidi unachukua muda mrefu zaidi.
Miezi mingi ya malipo ya ziada yanayohitajiwa ili kulipia gharama hiyo, si miezi tu kabla ya kumaliza mafunzo hayo.
Chanzo: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · maoni
Gharama hiyo ni nini, na kile ambacho si kitu
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.
Ni watu wangapi walio na maoni hayo, na ni wangapi wanaofanya kazi shambani
Ni wangapi huchuma pesa hizo kila mwaka
42,496 bar examination sittings that resulted in a pass — 2025, February and July 2025 examinations combined.
Sisi hatugeuzi hilo kuwa asilimia moja. Hii ni mtiririko wa mwaka wa mwaka مA watu waliojipatia sifa ya ufanisi katika mwaka mmoja.
Hesabu hiyo inahusisha nini?: 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) · maoni
Kilichowapata watu waliomaliza mazoezi hayo
Miaka minne baada ya kukamilisha, kutoka rekodi za serikali
ya 40,840 Ambao walifanya kazi kwa bidii. Law (JD), first professional degree Wala hawakuwa wenye kughafilika na yale ya baadaye. 1,860 Na lau kuwa si fadhila juu yake mngeli kusanya watu, 4.6%. Wale waliokuwa wakifanya kazi walipata umaarufu $107,773, Na baina ya makundi mawili hayo patakuwa pa katikati. $75,568 na $176,111.
faida za kupata kazi zote, Bradton, si kazi ya kuajiriwa ya 1725. Hatua ni kukosekana kwa rekodi yoyote ya mshahara na mapato yoyote chanya ya kazi ya mwaka mzima. Hakuna aliyeulizwa kama wanataka kazi, kwa hiyo idadi inashikilia watu walioacha kazi kwa kuchagua kulea watoto, kutunza, kusafiri, kuishi kwa mapato ya mtu mwingine, kuhamia nchi nyingine pamoja na kila mtu aliyetaka kazi na ambao hawana. Hakuna mtu anayetangaza kujigawanya na hatutakisia. Ni kwa namna gani watu wengi walikuwa wamemaliza mazoezi haya na hawakuchuma chochote kutoka kwa miaka minne au kitu chochote kile chochote, ambacho huwezi kusema juu ya kiasi kilicho juu ya juu.
Kile ambacho mfumo huo wa programu hufunika: 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.
Ambao wanapanda nyoyoni. Wauzaji wa vitabu waliopokea misaada ya wanafunzi wa serikali sio safu. Idara inadhibiti taasisi zenye ni ndogo sana kuweza kuchapisha na kuongeza kelele za takwimu kwa wale wengine, kwa hiyo hii ni kiasi cha fedha juu ya taasisi kubwa kiasi cha kutaarifu: 163 Katika hao, wanazidisha idadi. 97.0% ya Idara hiyo yenyewe. Kupunguza programu ndogo zaidi za kuripoti hufanya kiwango hicho kiongezeke kwa 0.0 Asilimia yataja.
Chanzo: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · maoni · tarakimu hiyohiyo kwa kila programu tuwezayo kuchapisha
Kile unachoruhusu ufanye
Malipo ni ya kazi, si ya matajiri, bali ni kazi unazostahili kufanya.
| Ayubu | Je, hilo lahitajiwa? | Median | Waajiriwa |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawyers | Legally required to hold the job | $159,670 | 754,500 |
Malipo na ajira kutoka vyombo vya habari: Kazi ya Kuajiriwa ya BLS na Takwimu za Wage, Mei 2025.
Je, inajilipia?
Kazi hii ya kufungulia inaleta faida $159,670. Kila kazi tunayochapisha imepunguzwa sana na vyombo vya habari $50,020, Ndio jaza muwafaka. $109,650 Mwaka mmoja kabla ya kodi.
Soma andiko hilo ili ulinganishe kazi yako na kazi ya kawaida, bali si kazi yako. Msingi huo ni nini, na kile kinachoacha
Na inakufanya upoteze kazi hiyo. Kila mtu anayelipwa mshahara mdogo kwenye tovuti hii ana masharti ya kukodiwa ndani ya kazi hiyo. Hayo ni dhana ya kwamba idadi ya watu wenye sifa mbaya iko juu ya kupimwa, na ni dhana ya kila uwanja wa malipo ambayo kila uwanja mwingine hufanya kazi kimya - kimya.
Unachohitaji kabla ya kuanza
- A bachelor's degree
- A place at an ABA-accredited law school
- A pass in the state bar examination
- A character and fitness review
Msipo fanya hivi itakuwako fitna katika nchi,
- 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
Zote hizo, kwa kipindi cha wakati chenye mshahara mdogo · Jinsi inavyohesabiwa · Tazama kitu kingine