Khetarpal is paid $43,000 a year, a notch above the standard - TopicsExpress



          

Khetarpal is paid $43,000 a year, a notch above the standard starting pay, largely because he came to the job with some previous experience. Still, it’s hardly a lot of money for someone with a law degree working 10- to 12-hour days who often comes into the office on weekends and occasionally works until midnight. He lives with two roommates on the first floor of a Jamaica Plain triple-decker, paying rent of $750 a month, which adds up to about a fifth of his salary. He has $50,000 in student loan debt, about half the national average for law school graduates, although he is exploring a federal program that would forgive the debt in return for 10 consecutive years of public service work. Khetarpal’s friends in large law firms work the same unforgiving hours, but some of them make five times his salary. When Khetarpal gets together with them, they are fascinated by his courtroom stories. But for the most part they don’t understand the path he pursued. “They think I made a silly choice,” he says.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:00:01 +0000

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