全权证书
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.
获得——幅度的中半部分——的代价。
培训月,全职,兼职需要更长的时间
支付这笔费用需要多发几个月的加薪,直到你达到总领先期,以上培训时间首先。
来源: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · 视图
成本数字是什么,它不是
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.
有多少人持有这个,有多少人在实地工作
每年有多少人挣这个年
42,496 bar examination sittings that resulted in a pass — 2025, February and July 2025 examinations combined.
我们没有将这一百分比变为一个百分比。 这是每年的流量——一年中获得证书的人;就业数字是固定的存量,每个人同时在职业中工作;流入一个存量时产生的数量相当于雇用率,而不是一个。我们持有一份长期的持证书者人数,就公布所雇用的股份;我们没有一份,所以我们公布流动并停止。
包括: 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) · 视图
训练结束的人 发生了什么事
完成四年后,从联邦记录
约 40,840 完成学业的人 Law (JD), first professional degree 四年之后,他不再学习, 1,860 没有任何记录显示收入的 & mdash; 4.6%. 工作工人的中位数 $107,773, 中间半介于 $75,568 和 $176,111.
“没有记录收入”不是“失业”。 衡量标准是没有任何工资记录和全年任何积极的自营职业收入,没有人被问及他们是否想要工作,因此,计数员将那些选择离开劳动力队伍的人——抚养子女、照顾子女、旅行、靠别人的收入生活、移居国外——与所有想要工作而没有工作的所有人一起关押,没有人公布这种分配,我们不会猜测它。它确实确定有多少人完成了这种培训,而且没有从中挣到任何收入,或者四年内从其他任何收入中挣到任何收入,这正是上面的工资数字无法告诉你的。
方案代码包括的内容: 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.
谁是组: 接受联邦学生援助的全科学生——大约一半的美国本科生,另一半则不在此计量。 继续深造的人没有列。 教育部压制那些人数太少、无法公布和增加统计噪音的机构,因此,这是足够大、足以举报的机构的总数: 163 恢复的 97.0% 将新闻部对这一方案的本国计算。 减少最小的报告方案 0.0 百分点。
来源: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · 视图 · 每一个节目的同数数字
让你做什么
工资属于工作,不是证书,这些是您有资格从事的职业。
| 任务 | 需要吗? | 中中 | 就业人数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawyers | Legally required to hold the job | $159,670 | 754,500 |
《中等工资和就业:劳动和就业统计局职业就业和工资统计》,2025年5月。
它自己付钱吗?
以中位数支付 $159,670. 我们出版的每个职业的就业加权中位数 $50,020, 所以持有这笔保险金的保险费是 $109,650 税前一年。
读起来比作一个普通的工作 而不是你的工作 基准是什么 所遗漏的
假设你得到这份工作 网站的每个回报数字都以受雇于工作为条件。 以上持证人人数的计算是用来测试的假设,而其他每个薪酬网站的假设是默默地作出的假设。
启动前需要什么
- A bachelor's degree
- A place at an ABA-accredited law school
- A pass in the state bar examination
- A character and fitness review
如果
- 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
按偿还期分列的所有全权证书 · 如何计算 · 找找其他的东西