Official annual estimates for the whole country, mapped to the closest published occupation.
United States · annual wage estimate
25th percentile
$102,990
Median
$159,670
75th percentile
$221,370
BLS covers wage and salary employees, including part-time workers, but excludes self-employed workers and owners or partners in unincorporated firms. Wages include commissions and production bonuses, but exclude overtime premiums, employer benefits, and non-production bonuses; this is not a base-pay-only or total-compensation measure. Annual wage estimates generally convert hourly rates using a full-time, year-round schedule of 2,080 hours. Actual annual earnings on a shorter schedule can be lower.
This is a country-level occupation benchmark, not a local offer estimate. Pay can differ by location, employer, duties, and working pattern.
National median with 25th–75th percentile band, 2003–2025.Band hidden where official percentile estimates were suppressed.
Source: BLS, 2025-05-01. Mapped to Lawyers; the occupation is broader than the page role. Figures are estimates, not advertised salaries.
Quick interpretation
The national Lawyers benchmark is a useful comparison when a Solicitor role involves legal advice, document work, or legal proceedings. It is not an exact title match: "Solicitor" is absent from the profile's visible sample titles, and actual scope may be narrower than the broad Lawyers occupation.
Benchmark fit
Why this benchmark applies to Solicitor
Use the Lawyers benchmark for a Solicitor role whose work overlaps with advising clients, drafting legal documents, or legal proceedings. Treat it as a broad occupational comparison, not proof that every US role called Solicitor belongs in that occupation.
Overlapping responsibilities
Both the broad Lawyers occupation and solicitor descriptions include advising clients on legal matters and possible courses of action.
Both descriptions include preparing legal documents, including contracts and other legal papers.
Researching legal authorities is part of the overlap: the Lawyers profile covers studying legal sources, while solicitor guidance includes legal records and case law.
What the occupation combines
The US Lawyers occupation covers representing clients in legal proceedings, drawing up legal documents, and managing or advising clients on legal transactions. Lawyers may specialize or practice across several areas of law.
Nearby titles: The profile's visible sample titles include Attorney, Counsel, General Counsel, Lawyer, and Prosecutor..
The visible sample titles do not include "Solicitor." That omission does not rule out an individual match, but a job title alone cannot establish that a role has the same scope as the national Lawyers occupation.
Role scope
What Solicitor work usually includes
Lawyers represent clients in legal proceedings, prepare legal documents, and advise on legal transactions. A Solicitor role may fit this scope when its actual work has those features.
Responsibilities
Interpret laws, rulings, and regulations for individuals and businesses. · Advise clients on transactions, liability, lawsuits, legal rights, or obligations, depending on the matter and practice. · Prepare, draft, and review legal documents such as wills, deeds, patent applications, mortgages, leases, and contracts, depending on assignment. · Analyze likely case outcomes using legal precedents; not every lawyer handles contested cases. · For defense work or an initiated legal action, lawyers may gather evidence by interviewing clients and witnesses.
Typical outputs
Legal advice on rights, obligations, transactions, claims, or litigation choices. · Drafted or reviewed legal documents, which may include contracts, leases, deeds, wills, or patent applications.
Solicitor
The title is not included in the visible sample of reported titles for the US Lawyers profile. Compare the job's duties with the broad occupation rather than assuming equivalence from the title.
Read the range
Three points, one pay distribution
A Solicitor position centered on client advice, contracts, and legal research is closer to the Lawyers benchmark than a title-only comparison. A role focused on a narrower assignment may still share some duties without covering the occupation's full range of representation, document work, and transaction advice.
25th percentile
One quarter of employees earn below this figure.
Median
Half of employees earn below this figure and half above it; it is not the arithmetic midpoint of the displayed range.
75th percentile
One quarter of employees earn above this figure.
Beyond salary
Salary versus total compensation
Compare the offered cash pay with the benchmark on the same basis. The benchmark includes commissions and production bonuses, but not overtime premiums, employer benefits, or non-production bonuses, so ask which parts of an offer are fixed and which depend on conditions.
Fixed pay
Ask for the stated salary or hourly rate and whether any quoted cash figure also includes commissions or production bonuses.
Conditional cash pay
If commissions or production bonuses are offered, ask how they are earned, calculated, paid, and whether the quoted offer assumes them.
Benefits and overtime premiums
Compare benefits, overtime premiums, and non-production bonuses separately from the benchmarked wage figure because they are excluded from it.
Working schedule
For part-time or shorter schedules, ask for expected hours and the actual annual cash amount. Annual estimates generally use a full-time, year-round schedule, so shorter schedules can produce lower annual earnings.
Offer review
How to evaluate your Solicitor offer
Confirm whether the job's actual duties include client advice, legal documents, legal transactions, or legal proceedings.The benchmark describes the broad Lawyers occupation, while the Solicitor title alone does not establish an occupational match.
Ask whether the stated cash pay includes commissions or production bonuses.Those payments are included in the benchmarked wage definition, unlike overtime premiums and non-production bonuses.
Ask which bonus rules, overtime terms, and benefits apply to the offer.Overtime premiums, employer benefits, and non-production bonuses need a separate comparison because the benchmark excludes them.
Confirm expected weekly hours, annual working time, and whether the position is part-time.The dataset includes part-time wage and salary employees, while annual wage estimates generally use a full-time, year-round conversion; a shorter schedule can mean lower actual annual earnings.
Questions
Solicitor salary FAQs
Source
About this salary benchmark
Source: BLS, 2025-05-01. The figures cover Lawyers (23-1011) and all employment. Updated October 11, 2026. This broad occupation benchmark may not match every Solicitor vacancy.
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