Average Starting Salaries for Texas Law School Graduates

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Average Starting Salaries for Texas Law School Graduates

1 June 2008 2,846 views No Comment

Continuing on the theme of whether going to law school is worth it, here is a look at the average starting salaries for Texas law school graduates, as originally published by The Princeton Review Best 170 Law Schools, 2008 Edition. (The average starting salary for Texas Southern graduates was not included in the article.)

Law School	Average Starting Salary
Texas Wesleyan University School of Law	$57,497
St. Mary’s University School of Law	$65,431
Texas Tech University School of Law	$68,800
Baylor University School of Law	$74,247
South Texas College of Law	$78,000
University of Houston Law Center	$85,215
SMU Dedman School of Law	$87,700
University of Texas	$101,111

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Nationally, Columbia topped the list with an average starting salary of $145,000. Duke, Michigan, Northwestern, and Chicago rounded out the top five schools, each coming in at $135,000.

To put the Texas salaries into perspective, making $75,000 in Austin is comparable to making $160,000 in Manhattan.

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# 2 June 2008 at 11:48 am

John (author) said:

I think you should put a disclaimer regarding the Texas/Manhattan salary comparison chart. There is no accuracy to that. It may be close to accurate to say that spending $75k in Texas is nearly equivalent to spending $161k in NYC, but saving a $ in NYC is the same as saving a $ in TX.

# 4 June 2008 at 10:49 am