 and declared publicly so we know what you're making supreme court associate justices that's what they call the other eight the the uh... chief justice makes a bit more the other eight make about two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars a year which is a gigantic amount of money for the average american it's not much for a top-flight lawyer you could go to work in almost any law firm in america and make a judgment make probably increase your paycheck to well over a million bucks so there may be a tendency