Suburban Law Firm Salary

[Marmalade.]

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After 5-15 years in a large firm, I'm considering working for myself at home. This only occurred to me recently because my parents' lawyer works at home. But what kind of work do they do?

[styling4sure]

Can i just say. Its double income though? If your on 100k then your husband or wife will be earning some money too. just think about people that are on 50k there getting along. and to a comment earlier before, what other job has an equivalent salary to law? engineering and medicine have heaps of work so there not counted. nothing else really pops into my mind?

[Lara1986]

Originally Posted by styling4sure

Can i just say. Its double income though? If your on 100k then your husband or wife will be earning some money too. just think about people that are on 50k there getting along. and to a comment earlier before, what other job has an equivalent salary to law? engineering and medicine have heaps of work so there not counted. nothing else really pops into my mind?

Assuming a person does end up getting married and their spouse works too


As far as jobs that have a comparable salary to law - you've got to consider what end of the scale you look as, as the poster said before. Most people when they think of lawyers and how they're all 'rich' have a picture in their head of a commercial lawyer in a top tier firm working in the central city or of a commercial barrister.

It all comes down to, in a way, how much work you're prepared to do to. I suppose there are plenty of industries/jobs that yes you would need to read a higher level to earn the same money as a lower level in law in the top end places for those industries - but the workload may be less, stress is less, you may have more time to actually have a family and a life so the actual numeric figure doesn't mean much unless you consider the lifestyle stuff.

But that is if that is important to a person - plenty of people may be content with working their lives away. Not my ideal life plan, but if it makes you happy more power to you.

(Oh, and my use of "you" doesn't mean specifically the poster styling4sure - "you" meaning people in general )

[twistedtigers]

Don't forget the mining industry for big money. The wages are still out there even with the economic downturn.

If you're willing to work 2 on 1 off fly-in/fly-out you can earn $80k as an untrained operator driving dump trucks. If you don't mind getting your hands dirty, then you can get $120k as an industrial mechanic - with perks such as health insurance, free flights and free housing on top... not to mention no education debt to pay off.

We all want to earn as much as possible, but when it comes down to it, you shouldn't purely be motivated to study law just on the $$. Is a sure fire way to find yourself on a window ledge contemplating jumping in a few years time!