{"id":145330,"date":"2026-03-03T16:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/03\/where-the-state-bench-pays-the-best\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:40:22","slug":"where-the-state-bench-pays-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/03\/where-the-state-bench-pays-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Where The State Bench Pays The Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to an analysis by Law.com, which U.S. state pays its judges the highest salary?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: The judicial salary in this state is $258,158 \u2014 which is less than what a third-year associate makes in Biglaw.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/where-the-state-bench-pays-the-best\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Where The State Bench Pays The Best<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to an analysis by Law.com, which U.S. state pays its judges the highest salary?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: The judicial salary in this state is $258,158 \u2014 which is less than what a third-year associate makes in Biglaw.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/where-the-state-bench-pays-the-best\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/where-the-state-bench-pays-the-best\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to an analysis by Law.com, which U.S. state pays its judges the highest salary? Hint: The judicial salary in this state is $258,158 \u2014 which is less than what a third-year associate makes in Biglaw.\u00a0 See the answer on the next page. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Judge-money-kdwYFA.jpg?fit=636%2C422&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}