Er, Diz....
It seems that he used the GOVERNMENT's (BLS) classification for 'lawyers'... showing '555,770' classified as in that profession by our government, (and earning a mean - not 'median' - income of $118,280 for that year 2007).
While you turned to Wiki, sourcing stats from the ABA, that reported a total number of 1,143,358 American lawyers in that same year, (with no mean income figure given).
I suggest what you have here is a classic case of "apples and oranges".
(It seems unlikely in the extreme that our government would fail to classify as 'lawyers' MORE THAN HALF the practicing lawyers in America who make *more* than Kenny's mean income figure of $118,280... so I posit a possibly more likely scenario: that ABA is counting many more low-income or no-income folks who still hold a license, or who recently held one, but who may not be doing much or any legal work any more, than the government is counting. So, it seems more likely that if you roughly *doubled* Kenny's reported figure for 'amount of lawyers'... you will probably be having to bring that 'mean income' figure D-O-W-N, and not up from $118,000. :-) |
