<p>Even if wealth is a major motivator, you should still think about which of the two career paths is more interesting for you and go with that one.</p>
<p>Answering the question directly, however, JDs make far more money on average than MBAs do. In fact, Stanford business professor Jeffrey Pfeffer and UW business prof Christina Fong recently found that MBA degrees conferred no advantage on graduates and provide no significant overall financial reward. (See their now-infamous paper at <a href="http://www.aomonline.org/Publications/Articles/BSchools.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.aomonline.org/Publications/Articles/BSchools.asp</a>) The reasons for this are myriad, and I won't recount them since you can read the article for yourself, but the gist of it is that the MBA does not result in any significant monetary gain and that its only real value in financial terms is the networking it facilitates.</p>