Top 25 Biglaw Firm Makes Another Salary Move

Biglaw is in the middle of a hot lateral market. That means that firms have to be willing to pay the tippy top of market compensation (plus other perks) to recruit and retain the associates that keep the deals/cases moving.

Goodwin Procter — a firm making $1,486,263,000 in 2020 gross revenue, making it 23rd on the Am Law 100 — already announced raises way back in January when the Milbank scale was the top of the market. Of course, since then both Davis Polk and Cravath have taken a crack at raises, and now that higher Cravath scale is what’s holding sway. And now that the dust seems to have settled, Goodwin is raising salaries again.

The new scale at the firm is as follows:

Salary Class		Annual Base Salary Effective January 1, 2022 (Increases reflected in March 2022 Pay)
2021		$215,000
2020		$225,000
2019		$250,000
2018		$295,000
2017		$345,000
2016		$370,000
2015		$400,000
2014+		$415,000

These increases are also retroactive to January 1. You can read the full memo on the next page.

*** Wondering if the grass is greener on the in-house side? Click here for a look inside the black box of corporate counsel pay in our 2021 In-House Compensation Report. ***

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