Lawyer Statistics 2026: Live Listings, Pay, Demand & Workforce

LawFirmHires had 4,249 open lawyer listings from 1,114 employers on October 13, 2026.

1,470 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 2,459 in the previous 30 days.

At least 3.7% of lawyer listings were fully remote and 3.3% hybrid on October 13, 2026.

Listings that do not mention a work arrangement are counted as on-site, so the real shares may be higher.

At least 1.7% of lawyer listings were part-time on October 13, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share is likely higher.

The benefit lawyer listings named most often on October 13, 2026 was dental & Vision, in 35.2% of listings, followed by health Insurance (30.9%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all lawyer listings.

The median annual wage for lawyers was $159,670 in May 2025, and the middle half earned $102,990 to $221,370 (BLS OEWS, SOC 23-1011, May 2025).

Employers hiring lawyers on LawFirmHires advertise a median of $135,000 a year across 701 employers on October 13, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

For pay by state and percentile, see the lawyer salary guide.

California had the most open lawyer listings on October 13, 2026, with 783 (18.4% of the national total).

New York followed with 454 (10.7%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with lawyer openings in California.

1,114 employers had open lawyer listings on LawFirmHires on October 13, 2026, and the five largest posted 17.6% of them.

740 employers (66.4%) had exactly one open lawyer listing.

Lawyers held about 863,700 jobs in 2025, according to the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook.

Wage-and-salary lawyer employment was 754,500 in May 2025, a count that leaves out self-employed lawyers (BLS OEWS, SOC 23-1011).

Law firms (the Legal Services industry, NAICS 5411) employed 448,040 lawyers in May 2025 (BLS OEWS).

Legal services firms employed 52% of all lawyers in 2025, followed by self-employment (11%), local government (8%), state government (7%) and the federal government (5%) (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook).

BLS projects lawyer employment to grow 5% from 2025 to 2035, faster than the average for all occupations, with about 28,700 openings a year (BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35).

92.8% of the law school Class of 2025 was employed about ten months after graduation, the second-highest rate on record after the Class of 2024's 93.4% (NALP).

For the full job outlook, see our lawyer job outlook guide.

For how to enter the field, see the lawyer career guide.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid lawyer listing on LawFirmHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all lawyer jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a firm posting dozens of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, NALP and are quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

BLS wage figures cover employees only and leave out the self-employed.

Every attorney listing is counted here: associate, senior associate, of counsel, partner, in-house, government and every practice-area title.

BLS wage figures for lawyers leave out self-employed lawyers and partners in unincorporated firms, so they do not describe solo or partner income.