Overview & Salary

Overview

Arbitrate, advise, adjudicate, or administer justice in a court of law. May sentence defendant in criminal cases according to government statutes or sentencing guidelines. May determine liability of defendant in civil cases. May perform wedding ceremonies.

On the job, you would:

  • Sentence defendants in criminal cases, on conviction by jury, according to applicable government statutes.
  • Monitor proceedings to ensure that all applicable rules and procedures are followed.
  • Instruct juries on applicable laws, direct juries to deduce the facts from the evidence presented, and hear their verdicts.

Education

  • doctoral degree
  • professional degree

Salary

Annual 10th percentile $45,950
Annual median $148,910
Annual 90th percentile $210,890

Knowledge & Skills

Knowledge

Safety and Government

  • law and government
  • public safety and security

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Business

  • management
  • customer service

Math and Science

  • psychology

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

People and Technology Systems

  • thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it

Personality & Abilities

Personality

Enterprising

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

  • Integrity
  • Stress Tolerance
  • Attention to Detail
  • Dependability
  • Self Control
  • Analytical Thinking

Abilities

Verbal

  • listen and understand what people say
  • read and understand what is written

Ideas and Logic

  • use rules to solve problems
  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
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