Lawyers
Salary benchmarks based on 285 public records across 5 cities.
What do Lawyers do?
Represent clients in criminal and civil litigation and other legal proceedings, draw up legal documents, or manage or advise clients on legal transactions. May specialize in a single area or may practice broadly in many areas of law.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 23-1011)
What our data shows for Lawyers
RoleHue publishes 285 salary records for Lawyers, across 5 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $210,781 at the 25th percentile to $349,976 at the 75th, a spread of $139,195 around $242,796. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $242,796 figure rather than in dollars (57% of it), that spread is wider than 89% of the roles we cover, so a single figure summarises this title worse than it does most others.
San Francisco, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $274,414; Chicago, IL the lowest at $145,000, a gap of $129,414.
Most of the evidence on this page sits in New York, NY, with 228 of the 285 records we publish for this role (80%), so the weighted figures above lean on a single metro more than on the country. Evidence clears 25 records in 1 of the 5 cities; for the rest, the city median we show rests on fewer records than that.
Salary Overview
Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 285 data points.
$211K
P25
$243K
P50
$350K
P75
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Benchmarks last recalculated: 2026-07-31. That is when we recomputed the statistics · the underlying filings are older. See methodology for how current the data is.