While at top US firms like K&E, Weil, Goodwin etc top senior associates are being paid £350 base .+ £100 minimum bonus if you hit bonus

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Chicken feed, dear boy/girl/nonbinary.

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I’d say the bunching is almost worse than that… The much hyped bonus scheme is pretty underwhelming as well to be honest.

Things are getting super expensive! Our firm offers trainees 75k now and rightly so! It doesn’t matter where you live – West Midlands is getting super expensive! So all firms should pay more now inflation has pushed things to sky high! Paying circa 40k is really crap!

So… is there talk of raise yet? 140? 150?

The deal is the payoff. Trainee pay is miserable for two years, and you get paid not that much less than your equivalent somewhere like HL.

But in return when you qualify you get paid so much significantly more than your equivalent at HL that those two years are worth waiting out…

This is pretty much accurate. Don’t be fooled by the big NQ headline.

Lots of bunching. What’s worse is the complete lack of salary transparency. Nobody knows what the bands are or where they sit on that band. So counterintuitive.

Would that be an actually competent person that wants to work? Look at the state of the fourth seaters and tell me we don’t need a payrise to attract the right people.

I actually don’t wait an increase. It would attract the wrong type of applicant.

Lol not true

With the recent increases this isn’t accurate, it may have been ~ 160 when the Nq rate was under or around ~120

Recruiter salary reports would suggest that HogLove pay at 5PQE tops out at ~ 160k.

So, yes, lots of bunching.

Yes because everyone actually likes HSF trainees they’re nice

Don’t you have a bundle to do?

Tho I’ve nv seen any trolling toward hsf? Is that golden firm 🤔

Please explain/expand on Macs being stuck in the past?