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).
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