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Re:Ask HN: What other good careers exist for those without a... by ztjio on Monday January 07, 2019 @04:31AM (#18843923)
The point is that there is a pretty big disparity between the big paying law jobs and the normal jobs on a frequency basis, the median earning value doesn't demonstrate this reality.

I did the research on this when I thought I wanted to go into law myself.

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Re:Ask HN: What other good careers exist for those without a... by ves on Monday January 07, 2019 @05:04AM (#18844044)
Wait that’s why you use the median
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Re:Ask HN: What other good careers exist for those without a... by weinzierl on Monday January 07, 2019 @06:07AM (#18844309)
Lawyer salaries follow a bimodal distribution[1], that's why the median isn't very helpful. Besides showing the distribution (what the article does) the more interesting figures would be the two modes.

What might be relevant for the discussion here is that lawyer salaries have been unimodal 25 years ago but have changed over the course of time. It has been argued here on HN [2][3] and elsewhere [4] that developer salaries are bound to suffer the same fate.

[1] https://www.biglawinvestor.com/bimodal-salary-distribution-c...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16337434

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12588202

[4] https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/

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