Are lawyers paid well?

Lawyers are a sunrise industry. The number of practicing lawyers in China ranges from 200,000 to 300,000, and the ratio of lawyers to population is several thousand to one. Moreover, the distribution is extremely uneven, with large cities clustered together and few small and medium-sized cities and remote areas. At present, the number of civil litigation cases is about10000000. Even if only one-fifth of the cases have lawyers, there are more than 2 million cases, and the number has exploded, while the corresponding number of lawyers has increased much more slowly. It can be said that the demand for lawyers is definitely growing. Moreover, more and more frequent property disputes and marriage cases have laid the foundation for the development of this industry.

This is a macro aspect. The characteristic of being a lawyer is to be bitter before sweet. Bitter before sweet means that starting a business is very hard, because lawyers' income comes entirely from cases. Lawyers who have just started a business have poor professional ability, lack of experience, and lack of fame and case source. No case, no income. Therefore, interns who have just entered the lawyer industry can only start as assistants, help other lawyers and accumulate experience, while law firms generally (except big ones) only pay very low wages, which is very difficult in the first few years. After this period, if you can persist, then you will gradually have some customers and cases, and your income will increase rapidly. The more experienced lawyers, the more cases and the higher income.