NY To $190K!? Which Firm May Be Raising First-Year Salaries?
Stay tuned for a possible influx of more cold, hard cash in your paychecks, U.S. associates. Be sure to check the UPDATE to this report.
Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: Who Now Pays A Starting Salary Of $200,000?
This across-the-board, $20,000 pay raise is just another sign of a tightening market for top talent.
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Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: Could Philadelphia To $160K Drive NY To $190K?
Could good news for Philly translate into good news for other markets?
Lawyers Poised For A Pay Bump In 2014
Finally some good news out there!
New York To… 160?
The only place New York will move to 190 is in your dreams.
Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: A Major Firm Raises Associate Starting Salaries
Which firm just raised first-year associate pay? How high? And why now?
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If Associates Don’t Get A Raise, Expect Even Fewer LSAT Takers
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New York to $180K. I’m Totally Serious.
Finally, some New York associates are getting paid...
New York to $190K? Actually, It’s About Time.
There's an interesting post up on Constitutional Daily by The Philadelphia Lawyer. It's a repack from a 2007 article arguing that salaries for first-year associates should go up to $190,000 a year. And he's right. Yet the associate salary scale hasn't seen a raise for almost five years. And bonuses are down compared to 2007. Is it time for firms to start sharing the wealth?
The Salary Scale: Never Has Stagnant Looked So Sweet
On January 22, 2007, Above the Law reported that Simpson Thacher & Bartlett raised starting associate salaries in New York to $160,000. That was almost four years ago — 1,326 days ago, to be exact (2008 was a leap year). But here we are, in the fourth quarter of 2010, and a new NALP report […]
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NYC to $200K? The American Lawyer Weighs In
The American Lawyer’s 2007 Associates Survey is now available, via Law.com. Good stuff! A summary of the survey’s key findings, by editor-in-chief Aric Press, appears here. The WSJ Law Blog collects additional highlights here. It seems that ATL readers and law firm consultants aren’t the only ones predicting pay raises in the reasonably near future. […]