The Vanderbilt law students (Patrick J. Lynch and Kyle P. McEntee) behing the Law School Transparancy ("LST") project (blogged here) yesterday sent this email to all ABA-approved and provisionally-approved law schools requesting that they report to LST two lists with data about every graduate as of February 15, 2011:

We formulated the list components with strong consideration to the data law schools already collect about a very large percentage of graduates. Your school already reports seven of the nine unique components to NALP. The two additional components – “Salary Source” and “Journal Status” – require minimal adaptation. To further reduce compliance costs, our standard requests data for graduates from the same time period, and as of the same date, as the ABA, NALP, and U.S. News request.

Job List
1. Employer Type
2. Employer Name
3. Position
4. Credentials
5. Full-Time / Part-Time
6. Office Location (City, State, Country)
7. Salary Source
8. Journal

Salary List
1. Employer Type
2. Office Location (City, State, Country)
3. Full-Time / Part-Time
4. Salary

The LST folks also have produced this wonderful spreadsheet, which collects the employment summary data from the 2010 U.S. News rankings and also adds additional metrics (detailed list below the fold):

Original Data from Summaries

State where the greatest number of first-time test takers took the bar
School’s bar passage rate for first-time test takers
Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers
Total graduatesGraduates employed at graduation
Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation
25th percentile private sector starting salary
Median private sector starting salary
75th percentile private sector starting salary
Percent in the private sector who reported salary information
Median public service starting salary
Percent employed in academia
Percent employed in business and industry
Percent employed in government
Percent employed in all judicial clerkships
Percent employed in law firms
Percent employed in public interest
Percent employed in an unknown field
Percent employed in a judicial clerkship by an Article III federal judge
Graduates employed in-state
Graduates employed in foreign countries
Number of states where graduates are employed
New England (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT)
Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)
East North Central (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI)
West North Central (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD)
South Atlantic (DE, DC, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)
East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN)
West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)
Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA)
Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, WY)
Employment location unknown
Bar admission required or anticipated
J.D. preferred, law degree enhances position
Professional/other
Nonprofessional/other
Tuition
Average Indebtedness (2009)
% that borrowed
FT Tuition (09-10)
PT Tuition (09-10)
FT In-State (09-10)
PT In-State (09-10)

New Metrics

% of Class Represented by Salary Info
Total Grads Represented by Salary Info
% Represented Difference
% Reported Percentile
% Represented Difference Percentile
25th, 50th, 75th percentiles for each {} and % of Class Represented by Salary Info
Average for each original column and % of Class Represented by Salary Info