Beyond NQ: What’s the salary progression like at your firm?

DLA – 6PQE between £143 – £155 but it varies massively from team to team. I’ve heard of people being on more than that. Still, outrageous bunching, given that NQ salary is at £130 at the moment.

Anyone at HSF Kramer?

Shoosmiths (London) 5 PQE = £102,500 (with NQ salary at £97k)

LW 6pqe – 300k base, c.100k bonus depending on reviews etc. next year c.325000 base

Anyone know Slaughters?

The ‘land. Enough to bankrupt a small Eastern European nation.

Any insurance practice bods in London? 8pqe and beyond

Base pay recently moved to pay bands with a minimum per PQE level, heard department plays a role but not sure what extent individual performance affects this (and at what PQE they start tweaking pay based on performance).

Minimum salary:
NQ 150
0.5 150
1 150
1.5 150
2 155
2.5 157.5
3 162.5
3.5 167.5
4 172.5
4.5 177.5
Senior associate 205
Counsel 235

Entry level partner on points worth around 600?

Am on the minimum for my PQE.

Standard bonus (95% busyness) is a black box.

Exceptional hours bonus (115%) varies across team but 1-5 for NQ/1PQ, 2.5-10 for 2PQ. Midlevels, depending on which exact subgrade, get 5-15/7.5-30/12.5-50. Senior and counsel 16.5-67.5. Junior associates in our busy and soso profitable transactional team gets around 70-80% of the max.

Keen to hear more from someone with more experience of the system, especially how much associate base pay can vary. More keep to jump to a US shop though.

in-house, 4.5PQE, actively encouraged to only work between 9.00am-6pm at most, come into the office 1 day a week, only do work within my chosen specialism – £150k base, £25k bonus, excellent pension scheme and more leave than I’ve ever had. Constantly praised on performance, given all the autonomy, healthy legal budget for top-tier outside counsel, no recording of hours or billable hours targets. After 6 years in what was ultimately a toxic private practice team, often can’t quite believe how well moving in-house panned out.

Simmons London?

Anyone have any info on Mayer Brown?

Yes, DWF seems to be hiring a ton of people at the moment. Admittedly, lateral partner level much of it.

Any intel on the firms in Dublin?

Anyone at Withers?

Based on this thread not sure that this logic holds up in practice. Seems unlikely that a MC NQ-1PQE will be pulling in a bonus in the 20k range. An exceptionally busy associate may get within touching distance of the STB NQ salary, but they would need to work so many hours that they may as well be at STB in the first place given they would then presumably be entitled to a Cravath bonus.

IMHO no one should move purely for money and, it should be said, these considerations are only relevant to a handful of people each year, but thought it worth pointing out that this logic doesn’t seem to track.

11 years PQE Shoos London – £106k + 3% bonus

But no requirement to go into the office and can work remote

Any info about RPC?

London (*West End)

NQ = C.£60,000 +

3 PQE = £70,000 +

5 PQE = £80,000 +

8 PQE = £90,000-£100,000

Salaried Partner = £100,000-£135,000

Equity = £200,000-£250,000

*9-6 hours, targets 1200-1400 p.a.