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It's Almost Payday And We're STILL Getting Firm Raises

As we approach payday, more firms hand out raises.

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The new market standard salary may have taken effect — most places anyway — on July 1, but the real deadline was always July 13. That’s the day that most of these firms on biweekly or semi-monthly (they are different) pay schedules deposit the pay from July 1 on. So a firm that moved a tad slower than the rest of the pack could still make good by its team with raises effective July 1 paid out at the end of this week.

That’s where real-estate boutique Duval & Stachenfeld — in the interest of disclosure, Bruce Stachenfeld is a longtime Above the Law columnist — comes in. In a memo sent around yesterday, the firm announced their much-anticipated raises and put smiles on associate faces.

YEAR CURRENT D&S ADJUSTED D&S
1st $    180,000.00  $         190,000.00
2nd $    190,000.00  $         200,000.00
3rd $    210,000.00  $         220,000.00
4th $    235,000.00  $         255,000.00
5th $    260,000.00  $         280,000.00
6th $    280,000.00  $         300,000.00
7th $    285,000.00  $         300,000.00
8th $    300,000.00  $         300,000.00

So that’s a perfect match through the first five years. Associates in their sixth, seventh, and eighth years are off the market pace and the gap grows a lot. That said, the firm is noted for advancing senior attorneys to partnership relatively quickly, so there may not be very many people sitting at that figure for long.

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(For context, the full memo is on the next page.)

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HeadshotJoe Patrice is an editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news.

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