Comments on: 2010 Fortune’s 25 Top Paying Companies

By: Crystal

Crystal — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:27:45 +0000

I just got into NCCU School of law, and I am having a hard time deciding if I should go. My concerns are, I’m already 25 years old and still live at home. I do have $40k saved, but that could be a nice down payment on a house. I would be paying out of state tuition, $22k plus books and living expenses. I would be leaving a job I don’t like, but probably would not be working while in school ( at least the first year). I don’t want to practice in NC so I would have to transfer back up to the Philadelphia area… (Probably to Widener Law) which is 30k a year but I would live at home. I would probably go for a JD/MBA, so I would be looking at $120k expense, but I have a $20k scholarship + the 40k saved so I would only be 60K in debt. However, I know the job market is tough for attorney’s rights now, I don’t know how it will be in 4 years, but I read that the US is opening more law schools than any other country and thus increasing the already saturated market of JD grads. The bar I believe is regulated by lawyers, so they can continue to increase the difficulty of the bar, so fewer attorneys will pass. (One attorney told me that she passed 5 different state bars over 20 years ago and she would be hesitant if she was graduating now to take the bar) I’m not clear what one could do with a JD, besides practicing law and if they do not pass the bar are they able to still make a decent salary? Any sound advice would be great! Also, I just got into La Salle University’s MBA program, my goal if I intended there would be to transfer to Temple’s Business school’s (Fox) program. I also just got an interview doing financial recruiting in NYC for s/three. However, I probably won’t do this, because if I don’t attend law school my goal would be to work as a management consultant. (Sorry it’s so long).

By: Soccer9040

Soccer9040 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:52:08 +0000

Nice money! I need to get a job at one of these places.

By: jsbrendog

jsbrendog — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:28:20 +0000

must. get. job. at one of these tech companies.

By: Curio

Curio — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:27:05 +0000

Not all doctors make clean money…

By: Glenn Lasher

Glenn Lasher — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:05:22 +0000

I’m not so sure I would class Brocade as a software company. My company uses their *hardware*. Certainly some amount of software engineering is involved, but what they sell primarily is a physical product, not a virtual one, as far as I can tell.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:18:42 +0000

Booz is/was a great company to work for, lots of sharp people there, it was a hard decision.

By: Boozer

Boozer — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:34:51 +0000

You’re a former Boozer? Cool!

- Current Boozer

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:06:31 +0000

The cost of the Juris Doctorate may not be worthwhile depending on where you go to school, the field of law you want to work in, and the size of the company you wish to work for.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:23:36 +0000

You and me both…that’s why i married a lawyer.

By: freeby50

freeby50 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:23:07 +0000

For every lawyer supposedly making ‘dirty’ money there is going to be another lawyer on the other side arguing against them. Equal numbers of lawyers would be on the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ side.

By: mylindaelliott

mylindaelliott — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:36:52 +0000

Lawyer or not, that’s alot of money!

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:22:24 +0000

What no one tells you at law school (or at least no one told me lol) is that those salaries and the other ones that people highlight…

is that is usually held for the top 10% in a tier 2, 3 or 4 school and the top 25% in a tier 1 school…

After that there is a HUGE gap down. It is actually kind of weird.

By: pays to live green

pays to live green — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:06:37 +0000

It’s great to see tech companies faring well in the list.

By: Jake @ CareerAde

Jake @ CareerAde — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:51:17 +0000

Yes, really tough now. Esp. Class of ’09 is getting mauled, no jobs and Class of ’10 is already coming out of the gates … Good luck!

By: BW

BW — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:38:20 +0000

it’s actually a really tough market for Lawyers right now…I know from personal experience, despite having ‘rockstar’ status.