Lawyer Salary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Assuming you are not from any of the scheduled UK universities (otherwise you would be applying for DPP). Also assuming zero legal experience... I don't think will be more than 4.1k.

Basket. Thats low. Ya. I have zero legal experience. Have a friend who graduated from Uni of Sheffield in 2006. He's 35 this year. To my knowledge he has been working as APP since then. A bit shy to ask him how much he earning... Is his progression considered fast?

if the big four are paying 1st year associates 5k-5.7k, how much do the mid tier firms pay? what about the smaller firms?

You are wrong, my husband is a lawyer and we are poor. Now we are going to have our forth child every expenses must cut down.

Murdoch law final year student here, is it still possible to find a job in Singapore that pays me at least 4k/mth?

how much do paralegals in sg earn? what is their career progression like?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Murdoch law final year student here, is it still possible to find a job in Singapore that pays me at least 4k/mth?

Law profession in singapore is highly elitist. Even a NUS law is low here. Many comes from elite universities.

Everyone knows murdoch is a paid degree. You should be lucky to find an admin job in law firm paying you 2k a month. Slowly work your way up then.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

if the big four are paying 1st year associates 5k-5.7k, how much do the mid tier firms pay? what about the smaller firms?

4.1k - 4.8k. Mostly ard 4.5k

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Law profession in singapore is highly elitist. Even a NUS law is low here. Many comes from elite universities.

Everyone knows murdoch is a paid degree. You should be lucky to find an admin job in law firm paying you 2k a month. Slowly work your way up then.

All the court of appeal judges are from NUS, and so is the chief justice. The attorney-general is also from NUS. So, no, NUS law degree isn't considered low. But yes, there are a lot of Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard people around.

I wouldn't say murdoch is a paid degree, but yes, will be hard to find a legal job that is at least 4k.

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Intending to get a law degree from Monash or university of Tasmania (UTAS). Would finding a good law related job paying at least 4k in Singapore be hard? I'm especially worried for starting pay to be too low making my full loan hard to pay back after graduating.

I know a couple from U. of Melbourne. They are doing okay. I'm not sure what they started out at, but after 4 to 5 years, they are all making 6-8k.

I don't know anyone from Murdoch, so I can't say for sure. But whatever it is, just make sure you go to a scheduled university. Otherwise your degree will become semi-useless.