{"id":120977,"date":"2025-05-30T00:02:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T08:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/30\/biglaw-associates-should-hold-out-hope-on-salary-increases\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T00:02:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T08:02:40","slug":"biglaw-associates-should-hold-out-hope-on-salary-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/30\/biglaw-associates-should-hold-out-hope-on-salary-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw Associates Should Hold Out Hope On Salary Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I would say people are not quite so aggressive at the moment with their salary demands. These are always trailing. It will catch up. I think there will be some salary hikes at the end of the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Robert Kinney<\/a>, founder of Kinney Recruiting, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, on the associate hiring market, and how it may affect compensation. He went on to say that while there is \u201cplenty of slack in the market right now,\u201d partner profits were quite strong in 2024, and that associate salary increases generally go hand in hand with that. Kinney\u2019s comments follow those of NALP executive director Nikia Gray, who said that due to the market softening, \u201cthere is less pressure on firms to increase salaries<\/a> in order to remain competitive.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Biglaw Associates Should Hold Out Hope On Salary Increases<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I would say people are not quite so aggressive at the moment with their salary demands. These are always trailing. It will catch up. I think there will be some salary hikes at the end of the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Robert Kinney<\/a>, founder of Kinney Recruiting, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, on the associate hiring market, and how it may affect compensation. He went on to say that while there is \u201cplenty of slack in the market right now,\u201d partner profits were quite strong in 2024, and that associate salary increases generally go hand in hand with that. Kinney\u2019s comments follow those of NALP executive director Nikia Gray, who said that due to the market softening, \u201cthere is less pressure on firms to increase salaries<\/a> in order to remain competitive.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Biglaw Associates Should Hold Out Hope On Salary Increases<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I would say people are not quite so aggressive at the moment with their salary demands. These are always trailing. It will catch up. I think there will be some salary hikes at the end of the year. \u2014 Robert Kinney, founder of Kinney […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Staci-Zaretsky-RM84o6.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}