To put it charitably, one reason people consider joining the legal profession is to cash in — lawyers make maek of money, right? Totally worth it. Instead, there are two distinct humps. The graph above is from NALP dataand displays the starting salaries of law whg, by percentage. Not too shabby. You could probably live comfortably on that in a major city, even with some student loan payments. However, almost no one makes the mean salary. And feel free to sign up for our weekly newsletter and get lots of great stuff sent directly to you!