{"id":227,"date":"2005-09-05T22:27:14","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T22:27:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-09-05T22:27:14","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T22:27:14","slug":"nice-work-if-you-can-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Nice work if you can get it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelawyer.com\/\">The Lawyer<\/a> that over 10 barristers are earning more than \u00a32m a year. <br \/>As many as 30 barristers &#8211; including at least one who is not yet a QC &#8211; earned in excess of \u00a31m. <br \/>Most commercial sets of chambers have barristers consistently earning over \u00a3750,000 <br \/>Those earning over \u00a3500,000 are easy to find. <br \/>The average income of counsel in the top 30 sets reached \u00a3332,000. <br \/>Hourly rates for commercial silks range from \u00a3350 to \u00a32,500. <br \/>Daily rates in court can reach \u00a310,000 but more likely to be \u00a33,500-\u00a36,000. <br \/>It is also believed that Lord Grabiner QC and Gordon Pollock QC earned \u00a33m last year. \u00a32m earners include Christopher Carr QC; Iain Milligan QC; Geoffrey Vos QC. <\/p>\n<p>The figures are in stark contrast to the earnings of barristers doing legal aid work, where \u00a340,000 is considered a good salary. It is growing evermore likely that barristers will refuse legal aid briefs because their rates of pay have been pegged for eight years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is reported in The Lawyer that over 10 barristers are earning more than \u00a32m a year. As many as 30 barristers &#8211; including at least one who is not yet a QC &#8211; earned in excess of \u00a31m. Most commercial sets of chambers have barristers consistently earning over \u00a3750,000 Those earning over \u00a3500,000 are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}