Still, that was down from a 94.3 percent job-placement rate for 2009 graduates. Their average starting salary was $71,456, according to the law school. But that was roughly $3,500 less on average than what Boyd’s 2007 graduates earned in their first year out of school.he most common salary range for those graduates last year was $60,001 to $65,000, about on par with the national average for first-year attorneys. “We’re not seeing the first-year salaries that lawyers saw coming through the door three, four, five years ago,” he said.