Salary Wars Heat Up As Am Law 100 Firm Gets In On The Associate Raise Action
More good news from the frontline of the salary wars.
Woohoo! It’s only been a day since the $215,000 associate compensation scale became a thing, and already we are seeing more firms making their own salary news.
The latest firm to announce raises for associates is Steptoe & Johnson, which made $393,914,000 in gross revenue in 2020, making it 97th on the Am Law 100. They’ve matched the scale announced by Milbank yesterday. That means the firm will be working off of the now familiar salary scale below:
| Class | Old Salary | New Salary |
| Class of 2021 | $205K | $215K |
| Class of 2020 | $215K | $225K |
| Class of 2019 | $240K | $250K |
| Class of 2018 | $275K | $285K |
| Class of 2017 | $305K | $325K |
| Class of 2016 | $330K | $350K |
| Class of 2015 | $350K | $370K |
| Class of 2014+ | $365K | $385K |
Plus the firm announced additional discretionary bonuses, on top of the standard year-end ones:
The firm also will award discretionary bonuses, in addition to work effort bonuses, to those associates whose performance and financial contribution to the firm in 2021 substantially exceeded all expectations and most contributed to our success.
I’m sure that makes for some very happy associates. The full email is available on the next page.
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