Profession lawyer was relevant at all times. Absolutely every person can have a situation when he needs qualified legal assistance and protection. This is the main activity of a lawyer. The profession is prestigious and, as many consider it, quite high paid. But is it really so? Let's try to figure out how much a lawyer earns.
Categories
First of all, you need to decide what lawyers are and what they do directly by the nature of their activity:
- Lawyers for business matters. Most often these are land issues, bankruptcy cases. This also includes the compilation and execution of claim and claim documentation.
- In criminal matters. Advocate is provided for both parties - for the victim and the accused. According to these cases, a lawyer can represent his client in courts of any level.
- On civil issues. They deal with the following issues: consumer protection, labor, credit, housing and land disputes private order, road accidents, transactions and disputes with real estate.
- For family matters. It solves issues related to marriage and divorce, property disputes.
- For administrative matters. Engaged in disputes with tax, insurance and pension insurance.
What determines the earnings of a lawyer?
If we consider this issue in a generalized manner, we can distinguish several main factors affecting how much a lawyer earns:
- Territorial location. That is, the immediate place of work: large cities and capitals, a region or abroad.
- Scope and category of activity.
- Form of employment - private or public.
- The organization in which the lawyer works.
- Whether he works privately or in a collegium.
And, of course, the work experience is important, the number of won (solved) cases and processes.
How can a lawyer become successful and make good money?
At the beginning of a career, having determined for itself that jurisprudence and advocacy will become a vocation in life, several points must be taken into account. They also affect how much a good lawyer earns:
- The desire to work and earn money is stable and constant, and not from case to case.
- Creating a professional image and an ideal portfolio.
- It is better to choose one area of advocacy, and not exchange for everything at once. After all, experience is lost.
By the way, wide-profile lawyers receive much less and are most often in demand on the periphery. In the capital, highly targeted specialists are more valued.
The work of a lawyer in Russia
How much do lawyers in Russia earn? This question, of course, is quite interesting. And the answer to it, based on the above factors, cannot be unambiguous. Consider the advocacy in the capital of the Russian Federation and large cities with over one million people. First of all, it should be borne in mind that from year to year, legal professionals are increasingly valued. And if a few years ago the average salary of a lawyer in large Russian cities was 20-30 thousand rubles, then over the past 2-3 years these figures have increased significantly.
So how much does a lawyer earn in Moscow? Let's try to answer this question:
- A specialist who is engaged in private activities - 55-190 thousand rubles per month.
- Assistant attorney - 30-50 thousand
- The chief lawyer in the organization - 60-160 thousand
- Permanent lawyer - 50-100 thousand
- Head of Legal Department - 80-140 thousand
The work of a lawyer in the regions
In a small town on the periphery, the level of payment for lawyer services is reduced. Let's see how much a lawyer earns away from the capital. As noted above, in the regions and regions most often specialists are broadly focused. That is, those who can simultaneously engage in criminal, civil, and family affairs.
It would seem that the more areas of work there are, the higher the payment can be. But in this case, on the contrary, specialists with experience in one field of activity are valued more. Thus, the average salary of a private lawyer in the region varies from 20 to 40 thousand per month. In urban settlements - from 10 to 20 thousand. In some cases, pay less. Let's find out the situation in specific cities and institutions:
- Arkhangelsk. In government agencies, the average salary of a lawyer is 25 thousand.
- Belgorod. IP - only 13 thousand
- Volgograd. Private law practice - 45 thousand
- Yekaterinburg. Scatter: from 12 thousand in a penal colony to 35-40 privately.
- Krasnoyarsk. One of the management companies pays its lawyer 12 thousand a month, when a large investment firm - 70.
- Nizhnevartovsk. The school lawyer receives 20 thousand rubles.
- Penza Lawyer at law enforcement agencies receives 49 thousand per month.
The work of a lawyer abroad
Let us turn to the advocacy of developed countries of the far abroad: the USA, Belgium, and Great Britain. How much does a lawyer earn in these states? Of course, lawyers there receive much more than their Russian colleagues. For example, a novice lawyer can, not without difficulty, of course, earn about 50 thousand dollars a year. Having gained experience and won a dozen cases, he can increase this amount in direct proportion to the growth of image and status. Thus, amounts of up to 180-200 thousand dollars a year become real.
High salaries and lawyers in Belgium. For participation in the process, during interrogation, during the preparation of any documents per hour, the specialist receives about $ 600. If you compare how much a criminal lawyer in Russia earns, this amount is as follows: from 1000 to 3000 rubles per hour when working privately. And about 500 - in government agencies. The difference, of course, is striking. But here we should not forget that education abroad is an order of magnitude higher than in Russia. This factor is very important.
Thus, in order to make good money in the legal profession, you need to get a quality education. And, most importantly, knowledge. A specialist needs to gain experience, actively promote himself among colleagues. Then, after some time, you can achieve a fairly high level of income. And provide yourself and loved ones a decent life.
