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Indian lawyers top GDP-based pay table
Indian lawyers are being paid the most among the BRIC economies when salaries are measured against GDP per head.
Indian senior lawyers top the average GDP figure, but fifth place on absolute salary Rajat Kohli
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In India, senior lawyers earn 53.4 times the average, per capita, gross domestic product figure. Next comes China, on a multiple of 19.4; then Brazil (on 12.7) and Russia (6.8). The UK comes in, by comparison, at 5.4. The figures are from a survey conducted by international legal recruiter Laurence Simons and released today. Absolute salary figures, of course, put the rankings in a very different order. The UK (£134,504) comes top, followed by Brazil (£93,966), China (£76,986), Russia (£62,099) and then India (£51,868).
More willing to work abroad
The BRIC country lawyers are all the more willing to work abroad than UK lawyers (of whom only 48 per cent would take a posting overseas). Brazilians (78 per cent) are the most willing, followed by Indians (74 per cent), the Chinese (68 per cent) and then the Russians (60 per cent).
