US US Circuit Court of Appeals judge
How much does N/A (role-based salary, e.g. any sitting U.S. Circuit Judge) make?
Answer: A US Court of Appeals judge's salary is set by law at $264,900 a year, the same for everyone in that job, not one specific person.
Yearly salary (2026)
$264,900
Set by law Not one person's pay; every judge in this role gets exactly this same salary.
N/A (role-based salary, e.g. any sitting U.S. Circuit Judge)$264,900
Typical person in the US$50,980
About 5.2× the Typical person in the US.
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Sources and data
Sources: uscourts.gov. “Estimated” figures come from news or magazines, not from the person. Assets are self-reported at disclosure time, with land counted at its tax value.