law graduates definitely earn much more than engineers…a fresh law graduate has double the package as compared to an engineer

are you kidding me?

What institute do u pass from to earn better than engineers? I dont know off any!

I am pursuing law from a college affiliated to IP university in Delhi. But as per what I know, you are no where near to what an average person doing engg is paid.

and the information is based on real people, not like i am hitting in the air.

Dude if you are interested in doing law, make sure, law is not the only thing you do, do supply it with a Company Secretary or maybe a 2-yr diploma in corporate law or cyber law or else do LLB if you are interested in being an academician .. :)

hey, as far as I knw being a student of NLU, a law grad can surely earn high than any engg grad, only thng needed is tht u secure placements with any 1st tier or a 2nd tier law firm…many of my seniors secured packages ranging from 50 lakhs and high.

As for any additional course with LLB it surely wuld raise ur market value & its on u wether u wanna pursue thm or nt…bt certificate courses like ones frm ILI do add stars to ur CV.

I have passed from GLC, Mumbai… And yes i m earning more than engineers. Now i dont want to post my package here…but would just like to say that please dont moralize others, as u might not be capable enough to secure a gud job, but that doesnt mean that gud jobs and gud packages r nt there in legal profession. Today, lawyers have good, name and money…just like the medical profession. Engineering is no where in comparision.

depends on which college you obtain your degree from and what firm you end up working for. if you do not work for a firm and work instead for an advocate, anything over 20000 is optimistic (by current standards). if you work with the best corporate firms in the country, anything between 8 and 15 lakhs per annum. if you work with any other firm, could be much lesser.

the probability of your ending up at a tier-1 firm is higher if you obtain your degree from a top-4 NLU, simply because the firms have a reputation to depend on, although the newer NLUs are also performing quite well. I have also seen GLC, Symbi and ILS grads at these firms. If you manage to wangle a training contract with a foreign firm, the pay is exponentially higher.

In south india it is quite common for reputed firms to be stocked in the majority with associates from local colleges (such as UILS and BILS in bangalore), and the bias towards NLUs is not as pronounced as in Mumbai.

In my experience, engineering does not pay as much as may be earned by a law grad from a top-4 (NLS, Nalsar, NUJS, NLUJ) NLU. However it depends on the job you take up, as also the city. I have spoken to associates from large and small firms and they overall agree that a CS degree while providing a little value, does not provide enough to swing the vote in your favour if nothing else is good. Smaller ‘diploma’ courses which Ms. Surbhi Bhatia above refers to, also only make sense if your college does not teach these subjects as part of a regular course. I am unaware of what her college is or who she is in contact with, but all of my friends in corporate law, without exception earn more than engg grads. However I have never known anyone to earn 50 lakhs either (unless it is per annum and close to some salary provided by a foreign firm)

I hope this clears some things up.

hii, i just want to ask you about the “training contract with a foreign firm”, that you have mentioned .What is its nature and how to fetch one. which all foreign firms offer it and does one need to go abroad for such training period.

thanxx sir…but there are more than thousands of law colleges in india and so that der should be more competiton rather than medical field..and in enggenering there are many companies offering campus…can you say that every company and bank have legal advisors of there own or not??

dude its easy to det a 2 tier law college lyk bvp pune or amity or uils chandigarh , vm salgaocar goa , des pune … u cn easily get these colleges n the exposure u get here cn also lead u sumwhr gud if nt d best .. thou these r nt d best colgs bt still sum pass outs frm these colleges hv provd der mark

sir can u please tell d avg. package offered to a glc mumbai student???

and which is better ILS or GLC ???

reply soon,,

both colleges r gud but I would suggest ILS over GLC.. SLS,ILS and GLC all come in the same tier and r much better dan mny of the NLU’s.

i am a law graduate from S.V.University, Tirupati besides M.B.A. in marketing

can anybody tell me what is salary differnce if u r a law graduate from uk or law graduate from top 5 nlu and u r joing an indian law firm

@surbhi,you are in which college under ipu.

I am a grade 12 student…aspiring ti become a corporate lawyer…i m planning to join O.P.Jindal Global Law School…would i get a good job in campus placement?

Look at excellence and not money.

If u are good at your subject, passionate about it and as a cause excel, it will follow.

Best of luck

A partner of a Big 3

i want to be an lawyer but my parents are telling to be a engg. vl i be paid more than an engg or itz all the same.. + is it more prestigious than being an engg..??

DO WHAT YOU ARE LIKELY TO LOVE DOING IN THE LONG TERM.

IF YOU ARE GOOD AT WHAT YOU DO, THE MONEY ALWAYS COMES AROUND.

Don’t choose a profession based on the current starting salary. Engineers are as valuable to a society as lawyers. I understand that most people do not have the luxury these days, to compromise on the salary, because of their responsibilities. However, the starting salary of both an engineer and a lawyer can vary from 30-90K per month. Anyone who tells you that lawyers make more than engineers is clearly not a litigating lawyer. They have never worked with a counsel and argued in a courtroom. If you choose that path, the money is less than what an engineer will make right out of college. If you choose to become a corporate lawyer/corporate commercial litigator with a Tier 1 law firm, you will earn the big bucks. You should know, however, that those jobs are very limited and extremely competitive. So, a grand total of 5% of law graduates are in those positions.

Hope this satisfies your query.

I just wanted to know that sir what will be my actual salary???

Actually I have done my law graduate in UK from Oxford university and I have studies the books of law and I learned all the IPC sections. Please Sir can you tell me my pay cause I am in a actual need of money for me and my family!!!

Please reply soon!

Mansi

what is the starting salary of law graduate in cities like bombay or delhi or any other metro city

The salary ranges at Indian law firms are as follows:

1. In tier 1 law firms (which are around 8 in number), the actual salary may range between 10 lacs-15 lacs. per annum

2. In tier 2 law firms (which are around 15 in mumber) the salary may range between 5 lacs.- 10 lacs. per annum

3. In tier 3 law firms and below (which are definitely more than 50 in number), the salary may get as low as 15,000 per month.

4. In the legal teams of financial institutions such as ICICI Bank and some of the big corporate houses such as ONGC or Mahindra the salary may range between 6 lacs-11 lacs per annum

Note:

I. Since most law firms follow the retainership system, all the figures above are more of in-hand salaries (excluding Tax Deducted at source @ 10%) and no packages since there are no other deductions such as HRA, PF etc.

II. All figures above are reflective of salaries offered to a fresh law graduate.

Trust this helps,

All the Best!

See there is no limit of starting salary of law graduate, Its all about company where u got the job but remember you have face struggle to be perfect in law field so stay cool to get success as a Lawyer

comparing engineering with law is like comparing elephants with apples … if money is your only concern, legal profession is definately not even a option …

Mr. Firdous clearly has no idea about the salaries paid in the tier 1 law firms in India.

If you really want to be a lawyer then there should be nothing stopping you . Law has excellent opportunities but for a very few . The success rate of a lawyer is equivalent to a failure rate of an engineer .

There is no place of mediocre in law . It is the highest paying profession after film stars and cricketers .

Must be kidding. Is this Oxford University situated in Uttarakhand (UK??)? If you are a law graduate, cramming IPC sections won’t help much.

Can a person do company secretary course while studying law? Does he have to do before it or after. What other courses are best to be done with law?

No. of engineers which graduate every year in india is more than 5 lakh. What is the number for law graduates? Hahahaha. In the 5 lakh which graduate, their starting salary ranges from 3 to 18 lakhs pa. If you feel that you graduated from a decent law college then compare you engg. graduates accordingly. foff !

sir,what is an average salary package of an fresh law graduate from icfai law school dehradun.

please reply

Dont think they have placements there. Forget salary package consider yourself lucky if you find a job after graduating from there.

Vil lawyers hv a gud demand in future??

Shud i do B.A or B.Com or B.sc + LLB??

if am a clat student and one takes me in his company so what would be my starting salary . Is law is better then normal engenieering except iit and nit

I heard only llb with no additional course/degree does’t make you place in good firm or organisation. i am in final year, suggest me any course other than cs(have no interest in core corporate) and its scope and demand. please help

Sir,

Im from Mumbai.I have completed my graduation in bsc and now im planing to go for three year llb course,i know many colleges in mumbai which include LLB courses but please suggest me which is the best college for law in mumbai.

there is very very good scope in “LAWYER” IF u become a lawyer from a excellent collage so yous salary around $113,530 in 2012, according to the BLS this is around 80 lacs per annam this is true,around 6.7lacs per month,so don’t go stupid & this salary is higher than IIT

is there any benefit to do law from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meetut

[quote=“Ranjan Sharma” post=11239]is there any benefit to do law from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meetut[/quote]

LOLOLOL

Are you even serious?

It would make more sense to call WagonR a supercar.

No offenses to anybody.

But, I would differ with the claim that engineering salaries are nowhere compared to law salaries.

I have done both - engineering and full-time law. So, I do not have any personal egoistic preference towards any one field.

Do not compare top law salaries with average engineering salaries.

While you are comparing top law salaries, compare them with top engineering salaries.

Top engineering salaries go beyond a crore every year.

While below average engineering salaries may be few lakhs (3-4 lacs) per annum, a law graduate from an average law school doesn’t get even this in beginning.

I also agree to the fact that legal salaries abroad are actually much higher than engineering salaries. But, this is not the case in India.

However, if you are compare lawyers, who practice and are doing good, with salaried engineers, there is no comparison of course. A famous lawyer is far too richer than a salaried engineer.

But, again, it is not a peer to peer comparison. There is no such practicing engineer. So, those engineers, who are enterprising, either open their own company or grow top in organizations to hold stakes in business. So, comparison of a practicing lawyer to a salaried engineer would be a comparison between apples and oranges. However, an entrepreneur engineer can be compared with an entrepreneur lawyer or a practicing lawyer.

I hope i am not misunderstood in this post. My intention is only to give people a realistic, impersonal picture of both sides, so that they can take their decision with the right facts in plate.

Another factor to be considered is that I think there is much more competition to get top jobs of engineering, because of rat race in India because of which many more people (as no. of engineers is very high) are vying for them compared to top legal jobs.

Last factor, which is worth consideration too, is that legal profession yield a lot of power in society, especially to practicing lawyers, which is a very important thing which determines your quality of life. On the other hand, an engineer’s role is not much a public role and hence, yields almost no power in society.

sir i want to what is the salary of a fresher and getting a job is easy or not

i had completed my law but i want to diploma course in corporates law is there any scope in after doing corporates course in corporates firm what will my package

iam pursuing ba.llb (3rdyear)and comany secretary side by side,i really need to know the package of of a law grad with cs

can anyone tell me what inspires a law student most or from where a law student could take motivation so to work more harder and with a passion.

The money is not enough? ;)

I think you need a career goal or aim - where do you see yourself? Is there some career or part of the profession that inspires you and that you can visualise?

I currently appeared for HSC examination and i am expecting to get admission in GLC MUMBAI ..i just want to know the difference between my starting salary if i pursue LLB from GLC and from other law colleges in mumbai????

I’m a law student in 3rd year! Pperusing l.l.b from panjab university chandigarh, 5 year law!! I wanted to know that how much i would be earning after my degree completes! I want a rough idea