First, the good news: British lawyers pull in more cash than their counterparts in economic powerhouses Mexico, Italy and South Africa.
Now the bad news: our solicitors and barristers earn less than lawyers in the US, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Germany, France and China.
It gets worse. While British lawyers’ average salary of £50, 675 is higher – just – than the average legal wage in Brazil, our extortionate living costs mean that, in real terms, you’re better off practising law in Rio than London.
The full rankings are below…
Via LLM Info
