Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: More News from Atlanta
The devoted readership of ATL down in ATL will appreciate this update. From an article by Meredith Hobbs in yesterday's Fulton County Daily Report:
More law firms have capitulated in Atlanta's second round of pay raises this year.Jones Day will raise starting pay to $150,000, and Sutherland Asbill & Brennan and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker will go to $145,000 -- an increase of $15,000 at each firm.
The raises are effective Jan. 1, 2008, when pay raises go into effect at several other Atlanta firms, including Alston & Bird, King & Spalding and Troutman Sanders.
The rest of the article, which contains discussion of salaries for more senior associates (compression!!! aargh!!!), is available here.
Three Law Firms Pump Up Pay for First-Years [Fulton County Daily Report]
(52) Comments
It will be $350k by the time I graduate.
Atl to $350k!!
Nice. Even Atlanta pays more than philly now.
Jones Day is stepping it up!
what is Jones Day paying their home base associates in Cleveland these days?
Atlana gets too much coverage here. No one cares if these hicks get paid market.
I propose ATL only cover LA and NYC.
12:47 - It's b/c Merck throws his weight around and is able to influence the content of this blog.
LA and NYC? Only an LA ass ociate would propose this. This isn't 1999 dude. The "flyover zone" is the Atlantic now.
ATL has to cover ATL. It only makes sense.
12:47
Makes your skin crawl to think we "hicks" are making so close to what NY is making, huh?
NY and LA to crying towels!!!!
12:39: JD Cleveland pays 135. There have been some rumblings that the Jones Day Cleveland, Columbus and Pittsburgh offices might follow the raise in order to prevent morale problems.
C'mon, Atlanta isn't even respectable. It's the Jersey of the South.
Where are you kids gonna go to school? UGA?
I concur...
Atlanta is a scumhole by any standard.
Atlanta to $35k!
Now now...Atlanta is better in every category-well, besides being a pretentious d-bag- than NY or LA. Georgia State U is also a good school.
To think, it will be Atl, NY, DC after the next round of raises, hahaha
Loyola 2L,
I stuck up for you yesterday and this is how you treat me? At least my law school is ranked above Loyola! Emory, UGA, GSU, and Mercer are ALL ranked above LOYOLA.
1:26,
UGA, good school? 85%+ of their L-School students are residents. Good public schools attract applicants from ALL OVER.
Get back to me with the number of UGA grads working in respectable NYC practices.
Anon,
I could care less about the rankings. I eat peices of shit like you for breakfast.
Loyola 2L
I don't think you're eating to much of anything...unless it's leather shoe soup :0)
1:33(12:47)
Hold up while I pull those stats for you...oh wait, you probably work for me, why don't I have you pull them instead? Skadden, hahaha
12:47@ Skadden,
1:26 said GSU not UGA. Also, I don't think the number of grads working in a NY practice is the proper indicator of a "good school". I find that to be rather narrow minded. Not everyone wants to work in NY. I mean really, they don't even have good college football there. How does one manage to survive the Fall there? I went on a date once with a guy from NYC and he didn't even know where Bobby Bowden coaches. Yuck. Who wants to live somewhere where there is no football. There is more to life than where you work. :-)
12:47@Skadden NYC,
UGA is not Georgia State, dipshit. UGA is not even in Atlanta, it's in Athens.
12:47SkaddenNYC,
You're making a dumb assumption. Good public schools in large metro areas like DC and NYC may attract students from all over. But the students going to Georgia generally don't want to practice in NYC. If they did, they'd go to some crappy NYC school like Fordham or Brooklyn, two crapholes where I'm sure many Skaddenites have crawled out of. Kids going to UGA have Atlanta or Charlotte on their horizons, not NYC. So asking to see the number of UGA grads in New York is asking the wrong question.
Good luck in life. You seem like you'll need it.
1:43,
Do context clues indicate that you are a female biglaw lawyer that loves football ... be careful flashin' all those good qualities before this turns into a dating site ...
1:43,
Do context clues indicate that you are a female biglaw lawyer that loves football ... be careful flashin' all those good qualities before this turns into a dating site ...
Georgia State? Bobby Bowden? Charlotte!?!
I rest my case.
1:49,
She's probably just one of those pathetic female lawyers who feels she has to fake her way through a sports conversation to "fit in" with her colleagues.
Most women lawyers would grow dicks if they could.
1:54(12:47)
Ouch! Damn what a come back....No wonder you work at Skadden...in NY, still makes me laugh. All these posters that are stating that we want to stay in GA are correct. If I wanted to work outside of where I live, I would go to Harvard or Yale. Why on earth would I choose NY?
Ready to throw your tantrum yet?
james brown,
lol. nah. i heart football. i have season tix with my brother. most southern girls can hold their own in a monday morning session.
This is why most northerners find the south so annoying. Our women are the best in the world and can smack around most northern guys, much less the girls. You stay in NY and we will stay here, how's that? I much prefer the trees and grass than buildings and concrete. Not to mention, how much more (COL) money we make than you do, hahaha
God I know that kills you.
oh please. saying you would've gone to harvard or yale had you wanted to work in nyc is like paris hilton saying she would've gone to julliard had she wanted to win an oscar. atlanta is a 6th-tier legal market. at best.
I will never understand people who live in the south by choice...It really is a tragedy.
I'd love to go on and point out all the ways NYC beats ATL, but I've only billed 2.5 hours today.
The south is a great place to live, but then again I can see why you wouldn't want to live here. We have a higher standard. You go back to billing, I leave in an hour to go home...you have a home right? No, not that cot in the corner, a real home. I would love to get a Rugby match up between the NY office and the Atlanta one...hmmm, maybe a co-city outing is in order.
The south is a great place to live if you like to sweat and have fetish for all NASCAR drivers, Jeff Gordon excluded.
New York is a cesspool filled with liberal douche bags and an ethnic rainbow on every corner. Altanta is home to dueling banjos, trailer trash and monster truck shows. Pick your poison.
These comment threads are starting to veer into autoadmit territory.
Former NYer who moved to Atlanta here and I love it. The quality of work is comparable to the work I was doing in New York and the city is infinitely more liveable. Take that for what you will.
A&B just acquired a securitization practice in Charlotte....is it the real deal or just rumors?
Please, this is nothing close to NYC. A 1st year in NYC after bonus will make almost $50K more than an associate in Atlanta. The gap only widens as the years progress. Of course, the gap will be even wider when NYC goes to $190K base salary in a few months. Plus, corporate associates have *infinitely* more cushy exit opportunities than associates in Atlanta. Finally, associates in Atlanta have to live in ... ... Atlanta! NYC wins again.
Yea, the South sucks. Don't ever move here!!!!
We like it just the way it is...
2:54 - I haven't heard the rumor, but that's the kind of rumor I *should* hear.
Additional details?
This may require a North-South drink off!
anyone know what salaries are doing in Portland OR?
after having lived in both areas, nothing beats the south. the north is expensive, crowded, pretentious, and not very clean.
Does NYC know what a tailgate is? I concur that the South is a better place to live and work. Having worked in DC and come back to the South, you realize that life is better down here, especially during Football Season. How about Appy State beating U of MI (U of M down here is Ole Miss, for those uneducated in SEC Football)?
Does NY have a football team? Anywhere? Does the North have a football team worth talking about? Yeah, you can keep Skadden, we'll take our football, women, Bourbon, and lifestyle over anything Skadden has to offer.
unless you are a minority.
football sucks, so f-ing boring and fat people every where. so many fatties. fatties fatties fatties fatties.
FAT
Rumor: Powell Goldstein will move its headquarters to Hazard County, Georgia, to avoid increasing salaries and to focus on growing its funeral parlor practice group.
@ 09:59 Since when did U of M mean Ole Miss? SEC football blows...the ACC is way better, and for people in the south U of M has ALWAYS meant University of Miami.
Don't ever confuse redneck ass trailer parks in missouri with the south.
This is the most retarded ATL thread I have ever read. Truly, a low point.
Been planning to take a job in Atlanta at Powell Goldstein or Seyfarth Shaw - but now they're behind in pay. Any idea whether they will match by next summer?
2Ljobhunter:
Don't hold your breath... rumors that PoGo and Seyfarth have either stated or insinuated that they won't be raising again anytime soon have been well publicized on this and the GreedySouth board.
Yeah, PoGo and Seyfarth are now part of the Atlanta "second tier" which can't afford to pay its associates like the top tier firms do. Although, even the top tier firms should be ashamed of themselves with the way they have handled associate compensation here in ATL.
Is DLA atlanta raising salaries?