{"id":155367,"date":"2026-06-24T11:35:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/24\/why-are-boutiques-so-much-quicker-to-raise-associates-salaries-than-biglaw\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:35:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:35:36","slug":"why-are-boutiques-so-much-quicker-to-raise-associates-salaries-than-biglaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/24\/why-are-boutiques-so-much-quicker-to-raise-associates-salaries-than-biglaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Boutiques So Much Quicker To Raise Associates\u2019 Salaries Than Biglaw?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What this illustrates is that boutique firms aren\u2019t constrained by legacy cost structures \u2014 they can price their expertise at a premium and direct more of that revenue back to the people doing the work. When a spinoff outpays its parent, it\u2019s usually a sign that the founders built around a tighter, higher-value practice area and stripped out the overhead that was diluting compensation at the larger firm. The lesson for the broader market is that size and pay are far less correlated than they used to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Michael McCready, Founder and Managing Partner of McCreadyLaw<\/a>, in comments given to Above the Law about the readiness of boutique law firms<\/a> to raise salaries<\/a> in the latest salary wars. Even, notably<\/a>, faster than the Biglaw firms they boutique split off from.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Why Are Boutiques So Much Quicker To Raise Associates\u2019 Salaries Than Biglaw?<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What this illustrates is that boutique firms aren\u2019t constrained by legacy cost structures \u2014 they can price their expertise at a premium and direct more of that revenue back to the people doing the work. When a spinoff outpays its parent, it\u2019s usually a sign that the founders built around a tighter, higher-value practice area and stripped out the overhead that was diluting compensation at the larger firm. The lesson for the broader market is that size and pay are far less correlated than they used to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Michael McCready, Founder and Managing Partner of McCreadyLaw<\/a>, in comments given to Above the Law about the readiness of boutique law firms<\/a> to raise salaries<\/a> in the latest salary wars. Even, notably<\/a>, faster than the Biglaw firms they boutique split off from.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What this illustrates is that boutique firms aren\u2019t constrained by legacy cost structures \u2014 they can price their expertise at a premium and direct more of that revenue back to the people doing the work. When a spinoff outpays its parent, it\u2019s usually a sign that the founders built around a tighter, higher-value practice area […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155368,"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-155367","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\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1213217465-scaled-F8NRm1.jpg?fit=2560%2C2449&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155367","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=155367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}