The latest employment and salary figures from the American Bar Association show that 90% of the graduates in the LSU Law Class of 2022 were employed within 10 months of their graduation last May.
Among them, 87% of last year’s graduates were employed in positions for which bar passage was required, and 11% were employed in positions for which a J.D. was an advantage.
The majority found employment in private practice—62%—while 13% landed judicial clerkships, 8% were working in business and industry, 5% were in public interest positions, and 2% found academic work.
Across all sectors, annual salaries of Class of 2022 alumni ranged from just under $50,000 to $300,000, with an average starting salary of $71,585. The lion’s share of 2022 graduates found work in Louisiana (123), with the next most popular states for finding employment being Texas (24) and Florida (4).
