Lawyers Salary in Chicago, IL
Estimates come from the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area, the closest geography BLS publishes.
The median annual pay for Lawyers in Chicago, IL is $165,660, 4% higher than the national median. BLS reports wages at the metro level, and Chicago sits within the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area, so this is the closest official estimate for the city.
Across the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area, Lawyers pay runs from $87,070 to $331,140 a year, with about 28K people employed.
Median annual
$165,660
Median hourly
$80
Average annual
$187,420
Employed in metro
28K
Pay distribution
10th$87,070
25th$106,980
Median$165,660
75th$232,270
90th$331,140
Salary calculator
- Hourly
- $79.64
- Daily
- $637
- Weekly
- $3,186
- Bi-weekly
- $6,372
- Monthly
- $13,805
- Annual
- $165,660
$165,660 a year is around the 50th percentile for Lawyerss in Chicago, IL. The median is $165,660.
Lawyers in other metro areas
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$301,320
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$212,500
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$208,880
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$195,190
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA$194,410
- Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA$185,520
- Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$183,350
- Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA$181,560