Harvard Law Grads Earn More In Mid-Career, Survey Shows

By the midpoint of their careers, graduates of Harvard Law and other elite graduate school programs earn the highest salaries, according to a a new online compensation survey of more than 1.4 million workers by PayScale. Graduates of Harvard earned a median of $201,000 a year. Coming in second was Emory University Law School ($200,600), then Santa Clara University School of Law ($197,700). When narrowed down to just law schools, the list was rounded out with: UCLA, Pepperdine, Georgetown, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, USC, Fordham, and Berkeley.