Law schools are in crisis: Enrollment is plummeting, bar exam pass rates are declining, and the employment rate for fresh graduates is abysmal. There’s one area, however, in which these institutions still outpace the rest of academia: how much they pay. Tenured law professors pulled in a median salary of $143,509 in 2014, more than professors in any other discipline.
— Akane Otani, a reporter for BloombergBusiness, in a recent article on the highest-paid professors in the country. Otani notes that it’s “safe to assume that, even if the law school bubble is imploding, the professors at their helm seem to be doing just fine.”