Generally divided into three cases: first, trainee lawyers , the salary is very small, 0-4000 yuan per month / month; the second is the award of salary lawyers, the salary of 70,000 -200,000 / year; the third is the practicing lawyers, the salary gap is very big, annual salary can reach more than 200,000, on the not capped.
Coordinates: Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, for your reference.
I. Trainee lawyers.
Own only legal professional qualification certificate, just stepped into the industry, must be to start from the trainee lawyer. And the internship lawyer's internship card will clearly tell you, holders of this document may not be in the name of the lawyer alone to undertake lawyers business. Therefore, the salary of a trainee lawyer is very low, some law firms do not pay the trainee salary, some law firms pay the trainee salary, but the salary is very low. This is understandable, because in the beginning, you can't bring value to the firm, so you won't get paid well. A friend of mine got a job as a trainee lawyer in Xi'an in 2021, and the trainee salary was 2,000 RMB/month, nothing else, and the trainee period was one year. At the end of the year, you need to attend an interview with the local law association, and only after you pass the interview can you succeed in obtaining a license to practice law before you are qualified to appear in court alone. At this point, you can choose to be a salaried attorney or a practicing attorney.
The second is a salaried lawyer.
Salaried lawyers mean that they work in the same way as they do in other organizations, with a fixed salary, no matter how big a case the firm has taken, how big a case you've won, no matter how much you've contributed to the case, you'll get paid that much every month. In Xi'an, the average salary of an awarded lawyer is 70,000-200,000/year.
Third, practicing lawyers.
Practicing lawyers are different, you pay more and get more in return. The more cases you take, the larger the subject matter of the case, then the more you will earn. That's why practicing attorneys still make a sizable salary. It's usually above 200,000/year, and if you do a good job, you'll have no problem making a million dollars a year, and if you do an excellent job, then you'll earn even more.
The lawyer industry, the prospect is very good, but the lawyer's income and their ability to high and low, the degree of diligence, how much access to information, how many resources related to the mastery, to earn more, then you have to make yourself very good, in this industry into the best.