Longtime readers know our skepticism when it comes to believing facts and data points from obscure websites. Only if the data is straightforward.
That’s why we’re good when federal-lawyer.com says New Jersey has the fourth-highest total of people applying for law school (with 25.14 applications per 100,000 people in the state). Those numbers can be checked.
This next one isn’t as simple: New Jersey is the second-best state in the country to be a lawyer?
Federal-lawyer.com also said its findings are based on a number of data points, including demand, earnings, existing employment and job vacancies.
Here’s where the numbers get tricky.
The site said the average law salary is $153,800 (with so many clearly well above that, the numbers seem skewed).
It also says the average lawyer only spends 17.17% of his paycheck toward rent (we’d like to see the receipts — or the place — as that is only $2,268 a month for rent).
The study rankings said the demand for lawyers is high in the state, with 158 searches per 100,000 people. A strong job market is indicated by a location quotient of 1.21, just above the national average, and with 0.4% of all vacancies being for jobs in the field, there are still many more jobs to fill.
Does all that add up to the second-best state in the country to be a lawyer? We’re still not sure. This much we do know: Here are the Top 5 states on the list.
- New York
- New Jersey
- Florida
- Illinois
- Connecticut
