Judicial law clerks are below average when it comes to happiness.
At CareerExplorer, we conduct an ongoing survey with millions of people and ask them how satisfied they are with their careers. As it turns out, judicial law clerks rate their career happiness 3.0 out of 5 stars which puts them in the bottom 31% of careers.
To put this into perspective, we compared how happy judicial law clerks are to similar careers in the industry. Take a look at the results below:
Salaries and satisfaction ratings in similar careers
| Career | Satisfaction | Avg Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Legislator | 3.5 | $37k |
| Arbitrator | 3.5 | $49k |
| Hearing officer | 3.5 | $103k |
| Lobbyist | 3.4 | $50k |
| Court reporter | 3.0 | $57k |
| Judicial law clerk | 3.0 | $51k |
| Probation officer | 2.9 | $60k |
| Legal secretary | 2.7 | $48k |
| Paralegal | 2.7 | $56k |
| Compliance manager | 2.7 | $125k |
So what does it mean to be happy in your career? Let’s break it down into different dimensions:
- Salary: Are judicial law clerks happy with their salary?
- Meaning: Do judicial law clerks find their jobs meaningful?
- Personality fit: How well suited are people’s personalities to their everyday tasks as judicial law clerks?
- Work environment: How enjoyable are judicial law clerk’s work environments?
- Skills utilization: Are judicial law clerks making the best use of their abilities?
Are judicial law clerks happy with their salary?
Judicial law clerks rated their satisfaction with their salaries 2.8/5. Judicial law clerks tend to be quite unhappy with their salary, with very few reporting satisfaction with their pay.
We asked judicial law clerks how fairly compensated they are for their work.
Their response was:
2.8 out of 5 stars
99 judicial law clerks
9% of judicial law clerks rated their compensation 5 stars
24% of judicial law clerks rated their compensation 4 stars
23% of judicial law clerks rated their compensation 3 stars
24% of judicial law clerks rated their compensation 2 stars
19% of judicial law clerks rated their compensation 1 stars
Do judicial law clerks find their jobs meaningful?
On average, judicial law clerks rate the meaningfulness of their work a 2.6/5. While most judicial law clerks aren’t very fulfilled by their work, some people may still manage to find meaning in it.
We asked judicial law clerks how meaningful they found their work.
Their response was:
2.6 out of 5 stars
101 judicial law clerks
9% of judicial law clerks rated how meaningful they found their career 5 stars
16% of judicial law clerks rated how meaningful they found their career 4 stars
26% of judicial law clerks rated how meaningful they found their career 3 stars
27% of judicial law clerks rated how meaningful they found their career 2 stars
23% of judicial law clerks rated how meaningful they found their career 1 stars
How well are people’s personalities suited to everyday tasks as judicial law clerks?
Judicial law clerks rated their personality fit with their work an average of 3.6/5. The majority of judicial law clerks find their personalities quite well suited to their work, with relatively few having complaints about their fit.
We asked judicial law clerks how well their personalities fit into their careers.
Their response was:
3.6 out of 5 stars
107 judicial law clerks
27% of judicial law clerks rated their career fit 5 stars
33% of judicial law clerks rated their career fit 4 stars
17% of judicial law clerks rated their career fit 3 stars
17% of judicial law clerks rated their career fit 2 stars
7% of judicial law clerks rated their career fit 1 stars
How enjoyable is a judicial law clerk’s work environment?
As a whole, judicial law clerks rated their enjoyment of their work environment 3.4/5. Most of them tend to enjoy, or at least not be actively bothered by, their work environment.
We asked judicial law clerks how much they enjoyed their work environment.
Their response was:
3.4 out of 5 stars
108 judicial law clerks
23% of judicial law clerks rated their work environment 5 stars
22% of judicial law clerks rated their work environment 4 stars
28% of judicial law clerks rated their work environment 3 stars
22% of judicial law clerks rated their work environment 2 stars
5% of judicial law clerks rated their work environment 1 stars
Are judicial law clerks making the best use of their abilities?
Former judicial law clerks on CareerExplorer have rated their skills utilization 2.9/5. Judicial law clerks tend to feel that they don’t manage to use their abilities to their fullest, when compared to other careers.
We asked judicial law clerks how well their abilities were used in their careers.
Their response was:
2.9 out of 5 stars
109 judicial law clerks
8% of judicial law clerks rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 5 stars
24% of judicial law clerks rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 4 stars
28% of judicial law clerks rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 3 stars
28% of judicial law clerks rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 2 stars
12% of judicial law clerks rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 1 stars