Back in the early days of December, Mayer Brown announced its year-end bonuses for associates. And, at least for associates in major markets, it was a match of the — then –prevailing market standard. However, the market has changed since then. Beginning with Davis Polk’s announcement of additional special bonuses on top of the annual ones, the market standard increased since those early days.
And now Mayer Brown has matched those special bonuses, as per the below scale:
Unlike the first round of bonuses that had different scale for different offices, these special bonuses apply to all U.S. associates who meet their bonus hour threshold.
You can read the full memo on the next page.
Remember everyone, we depend on your tips to stay on top of important bonus updates, so when your firm matches, please text us (646-820-8477) or email us (subject line: “[Firm Name] Matches”). Please include the memo if available. You can take a photo of the memo and send it via text or email if you don’t want to forward the original PDF or Word file.
And if you’d like to sign up for ATL’s Bonus Alerts (which is the alert list we also use for salary announcements), please scroll down and enter your email address in the box below this post. If you previously signed up for the bonus alerts, you don’t need to do anything. You’ll receive an email notification within minutes of each bonus announcement that we publish. Thanks for all of your help!
Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).
