Originally Posted by
GunshipGuy
I agree for the most part, but of the lawyers I know none makes less than I do. One just bought a $4M house, another sends his kids to a $50,000/year prep school in CT and some ballerina school in NYC, and the rest are enjoying their earnings by getting ready for early retirement before turning 55.
My wife makes less as an attorney with 15 years of litigation experience than I will on first year pay. She is only done paying half her law school loans. She has been head hunted by larger firms that pay way more but she takes QOL over money any day. She has less billable hours and a boss that understands kids and the impact of a husband that was military and now an airline pilot and her own reserve duty. She will tell anyone she is on the lower end but even her friends at the big international firms don't make more than 200K unless they have no other life than the firm