Class of 2024 law graduates had the highest ever overall employment rate and the highest ever employment rate in bar-admission-required jobs, but percentages only tell part of the story, according to Nikia L. Gray, the executive director of the National Association for Law Placement.
The class of 2024 had 3,700 more students than the previous year. But the class still found nearly 1,800 fewer jobs than the class of 2007, Gray said in commentary to the NALP report, Jobs & JDs: Employment for the Class of 2024—Selected Findings.
“This is an important point to remember,” Gray wrote, “as law school applications are at their highest level in nearly 15 years. The market has shown resiliency in absorbing periodic surges; that does not mean that it can absorb a sustained flood of graduates.”
Overall, 93.4% of the class of 2024 law grads had jobs 10 months after graduation, which is a 0.8 percentage point increase from the previous year, according to a July 31 press release. The percentage of grads in jobs for which bar admission is required or anticipated was 84.3%, which is a 2.2 percentage point increase from the previous year.
The numbers are for class of 2024 grads of ABA-accredited law schools for whom employment status is known.
The median salary was a record $95,000, up from $90,000 the previous year.
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