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What the pay survey shows
All lawyers median
$159,670
Bottom tenth
$78,360
Top tenth
$351,600
The 2025 national median is $159,670 a year, and the bottom tenth earn $78,360 or less. Read that carefully: the survey counts every lawyer under one title, so it is not a prosecutor figure. Prosecutors are government employees paid on published salary schedules.