<p>"Starting Salaries of Graduates Employed Full-time (Class of 2009)</p>
<p>25th percentile private sector starting salary $85,000
Median private sector starting salary $112,000
75th percentile private sector starting salary $140,000
Percent in the private sector who reported salary information 32%
This kind of chart is misleading. Honestly, you are over-analyzing this stuff, too far."</p>
<p>“Look at it objectively. Like I said, in law, salaries are 'bimodal salary distribution”. Those who get BigLaw ticket make 160k starting out, and most of other lawyers who didn’t make a cut at BigLaw will make like 35-50k a year starting out, if they are lucky to get jobs at all."</p>
<p>Not to be too picky, but this analysis isn’t right. The 85k isn’t a mean, it’s a quartile. That means that 25% of respondents made under $85k (maybe way under?) but 75% made over $85k. And half made between $85k and $140k, which is not bad, really.
So that part is not that worrisome. However, the part that is alarming is that they only got about a 30% response. We have no way of knowing what the non respondents are like. They might all be unemployed… so the low response rate is what makes these figures specious.</p>