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>What's your definition of a normal worker? Lawyers, doctors, dentists, pilots, architects and programmers sound like normal workers to me.

We're not. Lawyer income is not on a normal distribution.

People making >400k a year are owners/partners in a successful firm. Most of these people work hard, yes, but they make their big dollars off leverage; the amount of margin they can accrue from billing out the work of lower ranked lawyers on files they've brought in. Some don't even do legal work. It's very tough to lump these guys in with 'normal workers'.

For the people doing low-cost-jurisdiction bulk lawyer work, they make closer to 25-35$/hr as contractors. Which is almost an order of magnitude less. These are normal workers.