Your kid may be cute and mean, but law school is expensive and may not reap the highest paying returns.

In today’s installment of “Expensive Educational Investments to Carefully Consider” we highlight the returns of law school. Everyone knows that lawyers are cool and get to wear suits and are paid to be mean to other people – a skill in which you might today think your child could really excel. But here’s some more information to fuel the highly-educated fury: lawyers are not the highest earning of the professional occupations even though the training – by some reports – costs more than $43,000 a year. Take a look:

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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics