Salary
Average Salary: $97,000
Expected Lifetime Earnings: $4,049,556
Still paying off that debt from your law school loans? Writing those checks will be a little less painful with a position that tends to pay $97,000 a year (source). There's no real entry figure to examine since you're likely not coming into this at an early stage of your career. Most justices have either worked their way up the food chain in either the legal community or their state's government before landing this position.
While you can move on to other judicial positions after completing your term, you won't find much upward mobility within the position. In other words, you better be comfortable with that salary because it's not changing anytime soon.