_Könelik
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.
_Almak üçin näçe töleg gerek - aralykyň orta yary.
Täzeden başlamak üçin, şu ýerden başlaň.
Bu bahany örtmek üçin gerek bolan aýlyk töleg. Sen bütinleý öňe çykana çenli aýlyklar däl - ýokardaky tälim wagt öňe gelýär.
Menzil: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · _Görkez
Bu harçlama faýly nämedir we näme däl
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.
Buny näçe adam saklaýar we näçe adam bu meýdança işleýär
Her ýyl buny näçe adam gazanýar
42,496 bar examination sittings that resulted in a pass — 2025, February and July 2025 examinations combined.
Biz buny göterime öwürmeýäris. Bu bir ýyllyk akmak - bir ýyldan soňra kredensini alan adamlar. Işçi sany bir durnukly stok, her kim bir wagtyň içinde işde işleýär. Akymy bir stoka bölmek bir işden almak derejesine meňzeş bir san döredýär we bir däl. Biz bir durnukly kredensini eýesi sanawyny saklaýan ýerimizde biz işden alan paýy çap edýäris; bu ýerde biz birimiz ýok, şonuň üçin biz akymy çap edip durmaly.
Bu hasap nädip barlanar: 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) · _Görkez
Talyplary tamamlaýan adamlara näme boldy?
Dört ýyl tamamlanandan soň, federal arşiwlerden
_Ýa 40,840 _Gün Law (JD), first professional degree we dört ýyl soň okap bilmediler, 1,860 — 4.6%. Olaryň (ýagny, iman getirip, doga-dileg edip, namaz okap, zekat berip, pygambere wepaly bolanlaryň) $107,773, orta yary aralykda $75,568 we $176,111.
"No earnings on record" is not "unemployed" Bu ölçeg, ähli ýyl üçin hiç bir aýlyk rekordy we hiç bir pozitiw özbaşdak iş girdeji ýokdugy. Hiç kim iş islemeýänmi diýlip soralmady, şonuň üçin sanawda işden çykan adamlary - çagalary terbiýelemek, kömek etmek, syýahat etmek, başga birinin girdejisinde ýaşamak, daşary ýurda göçmek - iş islän we işsiz galan her kim bilen bir hatarda saklaýar. Hiç kim bölünişi çap etmez we biz ony çaklamarys. Bu ölçeg, bu okuwy tamamlaýan we dört ýyl soň hiç zat gazanmaýan näçe adam bardygyny kesgitleýär, bu hem üstki aýlyk görkezijiden size aýtmak mümkin däl.
Programiň kodynyň nämedigini görkez: 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.
Kimdir kohortda: %s 163 Olaryň arasyndan 97.0% 2008-nji ýylyň 1-nji ýanwaryndan başlap En az habar beriş programmalary düşürmek çägini şu bilen gidýär 0.0 %s
Menzil: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · _Görkez · her bir programma üçin birmeňzeş rakam
Siziň üçin näme eder
Ödenç işiň, däl-de, ygtybarlylykyň paýy. Bular işiň size ygtybarlylyk berýän işdir.
| Iş | Bu zerurmy? | Median | Işle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawyers | Legally required to hold the job | $159,670 | 754,500 |
Median pay and employment: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
Bu öz-özünden töleg edýärmi?
Bu kiçi/beýikligni görkez $159,670. _Gün tertibi $50,020, şuny saklamak üçin premium $109,650 _Gün
Buny ortaça iş bilen deňeşdirmek hökmünde okaň, siziň işiňize däl. Bu esas haty näme we nämeni goýberýär
we bu işiňizi almagyňyzy göz öňünde tutýar. Bu saýtdaky her bir töleg öwürmek san işde işe alnanda şertlidir. Bu bir çaklamadyr üstidäki kredensial-halk saýty bar test etmek üçin we bu bir çaklamadyr her bir başga töleg saýty sessiz edipdir.
Başlamakdan öň näme gerek
- A bachelor's degree
- A place at an ABA-accredited law school
- A pass in the state bar examination
- A character and fitness review
Buny eğer
- 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
Ehli ygtybarly maglumatlaryň, yzyna gaýtaryş döwri boýunça · Bu nädip hasap edilýär · Başga bir zady gör