- Roberts earns an annual income of $280,500 as chief justice. The associate justices have annual salaries of $268,300.
- Another source of income for several justices was rental of secondary homes. Chief John Roberts Jr. received income from the one-eighth interest he owns in a cottage in Limerick, Ireland, and Thomas, Kagan and Sotomayor also earned rental income.
- Three justices—Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor—earned more than $100,000 from book projects. Justice Amy Coney Barrett reported $425,000 as partial payment of a multimillion-dollar book advance.
- Most of the justices also supplemented their income with teaching stints at law schools. Federal law limits their outside teaching income to $29,895. Three of the justices got close to that limit: Justice Clarence Thomas ($29,595 from George Washington and Notre Dame law schools), Gorsuch ($26,541 from George Mason University law school) and Justice Brett Kavanaugh ($25,541 from George Mason). Barrett also received $14,280 for teaching at Notre Dame law school, where she had taught before being appointed a federal judge in 2017.
Also: Law360 has Sotomayor Says Supreme Court Is Not A 'Training Ground'
The U.S. Supreme Court settles the law of the land — it's not a "training ground for lawyers," Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Thursday. So before arguing their first case in the nation's top court, advocates should look within their soul and ask, "Am I truly ready?" she said. Justice Sotomayor gave that stern warning to an audience of young lawyers at the left-leaning American Constitution Society's annual convention in Washington. It was in response to a question from the moderator about the lack of diversity among high court advocates.
The "worst feeling" she experiences as a justice is wondering why a lawyer appearing before her didn't hand over a case to "somebody who knew what they were doing." Then, she added, "And I keep those notes. And some day I'm going to write an article about it."
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