Average salaries at the bar have reached just under £70,000 per year – but employed barristers are considered less capable than their self-employed counterparts, research for the bar’s representative body has revealed.
In its ‘Snapshot Report’ the Bar Council surveyed 300 barristers to find out the benefits of employed and self-employed practice and why they chose a career at the bar.
The report showed that the average salary at the bar was £69,446.
Around 16% of respondents said they took home more than £100,000 per year while 6% were earning in excess of £150,000.
Of the highest earners, 50% worked in-house.
The report also showed that employed barristers felt that they were sometimes perceived as being less capable than their self-employed counterparts.
Several employed barristers also said that their role is 'often confused with that of a solicitor', and that the title creates a mistaken belief that the barrister is no longer practising, or is less qualified to undertake particular work.
A lack of encouragement by employers and others for those barristers employed in-house, in either the public sector or private, stopped a majority from seeking silk or applying to join the judiciary, the report added.
Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC, chair of the bar, said the report ‘helps to identify the factors that draw some barristers to the employed bar’.
‘Barristers have a lot to contribute both in employed and self-employed practice. Our members play a critical and valuable role inside public bodies, companies, charities and other organisations where the skills and values which they bring as members of the bar can be invaluable to employers.’
Bar’s average pay creeps toward £70,000
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