Legal Professions and Studies

What the occupations pay

Median annual wage across the occupations this field of study leads to, from BLS OEWS (national, cross-industry, May 2024). The middle range is the 25th–75th percentile of those occupation medians — it describes the field, not any one job or graduate.

AI exposure of this field of study

Two published studies estimate how exposed each occupation is to today's AI. The OpenAI "GPTs are GPTs" study rates the share of an occupation's tasks a large language model (with tools) could speed up by half or more; averaged across the occupations this field of study leads to it is 51% — 78th percentile of all fields of study. The independent Felten/Raj/Seamans AI Occupational Exposure index averages 1.31 here.

Computed across the 11 of 12 occupations this field leads to that carry a published exposure score.

The most-exposed fields of study lead to knowledge, language and analytical work; the least-exposed lead to physical trades and hands-on production. Exposure measures where AI could assist tasks, not a prediction that these jobs will be automated; high exposure most often means augmentation. Bands are comparable across the cluster, education, job-zone and field-of-study tiers (same two studies, same percentile method).

Where this field of study leads

The largest occupations connected to this field by the CIP–SOC crosswalk, by employment. Wage and employment describe the occupation, not an individual.

Programs in this field

A sample of the detailed CIP programs within this family. The full family contains 32 programs.

• 22.0201 Advanced Legal Research/Studies, General
• 22.0214 Agriculture Law
• 22.0203 American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence
• 22.0215 Arts and Entertainment Law
• 22.0205 Banking, Corporate, Finance, and Securities Law
• 22.0204 Canadian Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence
• 22.0206 Comparative Law
• 22.0216 Compliance Law
• 22.0304 Court Interpreter
• 22.0303 Court Reporting and Captioning/Court Reporter
• 22.0217 Criminal Law and Procedure
• 22.0207 Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Law
• 22.0218 Entrepreneurship Law
• 22.0219 Family/Child/Elder Law
• 22.0208 Health Law
• 22.0220 Human Resources Law
• 22.0221 Insurance Law
• 22.0212 Intellectual Property Law
• 22.0210 International Business, Trade, and Tax Law
• 22.0209 International Law and Legal Studies
• 22.0101 Law
• 22.0301 Legal Administrative Assistant/Secretary
• 22.0302 Legal Assistant/Paralegal
• 22.0299 Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies, Other
• 22.0000 Legal Studies
• 22.0213 Patent Law
• 22.0202 Programs for Foreign Lawyers
• 22.0222 Real Estate and Land Development Law
• 22.0305 Scopist
• 22.0211 Tax Law/Taxation

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• CIP-2020 2020 U.S. National Center for Education Statistics
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic
• AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans academic

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; CIP-2020 2020; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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