lmao calm down little man

A market correction is overdue as the NQ rate at larger firms has been too high for far too long. It seems these days, firms are unable to distinguish themselves to attract talent other than by announcing a new NQ salary rise.

But if firms instead choose to pay NQs according to their actual fee earning value, which is how they decide pay for Al other lawyers?! – the NQ headline rate at most firms will be cut in half overnight. 50% or more of the NQ salary is usually

This would make for far less pay compression further up the pay ladder which can only be a good thing. People would actually be paid according to their worth and experience.

I suppose the other fair way to do it is to up everyone else’s salary by an extra 50% to reflect the same premium that NQs get. Firms – would you be willing to do that? Pay people an extra 50% more than what you should be paying for that role? You do it for NQs.. not great for staff morale is it?

Meanwhile junior lawyers receive single digit salary increases which leaves many being paid only pennies more than NQs. In the worst cases, they are paid less than the NQs that they supervise. Yes it still happens.

Message to firm remco and HR. You are causing the problem, stop it. Start paying NQs on the same basis that you pay everyone else – on experience and fee earning. This will give a much bigger salary range and fairer progression, with much fairer and meaningful increases available to junior and senior lawyers annually. The bunching issue will then go away.

Stop blaming this on the way the market operates. If it’s a problem in your firm, it’s something for you to address. Own it. Deal with it.

Do something about it then rather than whining on Legal Cheek

Go find a job elsewhere then, hard man.

I’m hungry, wearing a tattered robe made of rough-hewn sack cloth and my shoes have holes in them.

Can I get a raise please?

Glow up…yeah, Shoosmiths is literally the Alison Hammond of the legal world.

Thank you for posting your amended comment and clarifying as such.

Without this, my house would have burned down.

lol he’s not ripping anyone but his own firm you goober, learn to read 👽

Unless I’m mistaken, they have been paying more than OC for over a year?

OC raised to 94k last year whereas Shoosmiths increased to 97k last year.

Wtf you’re doing is ripping on Shoosmiths despite them paying their lawyers more than your firm lol

They used to be on par with Irwin Mitchell, DAC Beachcroft and Browne Jacobson.

Now they’ve overtaken Pinsents, Gowlings and Mischin with NQ salary and PEP.

*Amended to correct the year the job was offered (it was 2021, not 2022).

wtf am I doing with my life

£100K

115K