[patrickt]

Originally Posted by mdmull

CspaceB - an example of what I'm referring to in terms of relative salaries - http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/Careers/1...ent/index.html

And for the medium level income positions the benefits that are not in these numbers are much more than the average private sector.

I question whether those numbers are really accurate. Judges are notoriously underpaid -- both at the state and federal level. Most decent lawyers (and some crappy ones) make more than their state's Supreme Court Justices.