Field
Legal
What is this page & how do I use it?
This is a sector view — every legal career CareerStar rates, on the same neutral baseline, with field-level stats up top so you can size up the whole field at a glance.
How to use it: the table is ranked best-first. Click any career for its full report, and watch the moat column — 🏰 wide means well-shielded from AI, — means broadly exposed.
Careers
7
Median score
43
Avg growth
+2.1%
Wide moats
1/7
Every legal career, on a neutral baseline · median pay $68k · click a career for its full report · moat = how shielded from AI (🏰 wide = well-defended, 🛡 narrow = some shelter, — = broadly exposed)
| Career | Rating | Moat | Growth | Pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawyers | ★4.5 · 59 | 🛡 Narrow | +4.1% | $151k |
| Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates | ★4.0 · 53 | 🏰 Wide | +2.5% | $156k |
| Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators | ★4.0 · 49 | 🛡 Narrow | +4.3% | $68k |
| Administrative law judges, adjudicators, and hearing officers | ★3.5 · 43 | — | -0.7% | $115k |
| Judicial law clerks | ★3.0 · 40 | — | +2.5% | $60k |
| Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers | ★3.0 · 36 | — | +2% | $55k |
| Paralegals and legal assistants | ★3.0 · 35 | — | +0.2% | $61k |