How Much Do Law Professors Make in 2021 (including Starting Salary)

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Annual Salary, Salary Range, and Highest Paying States and Industries

Law Professors

Law Professors teach courses in law. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Salary
$134760
Becoming One
Very Hard
Education
Doctoral degree
Job Satisfaction
Job Growth

Personality
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Table of contents
  1. Average salary
  2. Starting salary
  3. Salary rank
  4. Salary range
  5. Highest paying states
  6. Highest paying industries

Average salary

Annual salary
$134760 per year

Starting salary

Entry-level annual salary
$41,650 to $67,640 per year

Entry-level Postsecondary Law Teachers with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $41,650 to $67,640 per year. Similar to any other job, their salary will increase as they gain experience.

Salary rank

Salary rank
A

We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of Postsecondary Law Teachers to all the other careers out there. So we created Salary Rank. We compared the salary of all careers then we gave them a rank of A, B, C, or D depending on where their average salary sit in comparison to other careers.

Salary range

Level Hourly Annual
Highest (Top 10%) $* $208,000+
Senior (Top 25%) $* $181,790
Middle (Mid 50%) $* $116,430
Junior (Bottom 25%) $* $67,640
No experience (Bottom 10%) $* $41,650

Highest paying states

State Hourly Annual
UT $* $189,880
NE $* $166,180
FL $* $152,130
IL $* $150,150
CA $* $149,660
DC $* $145,400
TN $* $144,610
NY $* $142,950
NC $* $141,580
MN $* $137,280

* Postsecondary Law Teachers are generally paid on an annual basis not hourly.

Another simple way to increase your salary as a Postsecondary Law Teacher is to move to a higher paying state. However moving to a higher paying state like UT doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the expenses at UT might be much higher than where you are currently living at right now.

According to BLS, the highest paid Law Professors are in the states of UT, NE, FL, IL and CA.

Highest paying industries

Salary by industry Annual Hourly
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools $137430 $*
Junior Colleges $95840 $*

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