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What environmental lawyers make
Median
$159,670
Bottom tenth
$78,360
Top tenth
$351,600
The national median is $159,670 a year, the bottom tenth start near $78,360 and the top tenth clear $351,600. One caution: the federal wage survey does not break out environmental lawyers. That is every lawyer in the country lumped into one number. Inside it, nonprofit and state agency environmental work sits near the bottom and big-firm work near the top.