Authorized Cheek rounds up the important thing NQ pay movers exterior the capital
Whereas the Metropolis pay warfare continues to seize headlines, pay in regional places of work can be steadily climbing with some rookies now incomes base pay of £68,000.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) was first to announce that its Manchester juniors would obtain a pay rise early this 12 months, with pay for newly certified (NQ) solicitors transferring to £51,000.
However final month when DLA Piper raised salaries for NQs within the Metropolis, it additionally raised charges within the areas to £65,000, in flip placing stress on different corporations to make comparable strikes. Every week later Squire Patton Boggs and Eversheds Sutherland responded by placing its NQs on £55,000 and £62,0000, respectively.
In Simmons & Simmons‘ Bristol department, in the meantime, juniors now begin lawyer life on a base charge of £68,000 following a 22% uplift late final 12 months.
Although regional pay for juniors doesn’t attain the dizzy six-figure heights of these within the Metropolis, your money does are likely to go additional. It’s estimated that the typical particular person’s dwelling prices in Leeds sits at £1,500 monthly, whereas the typical property value is available in at little beneath £240,000. In London, in the meantime, common dwelling prices are stated to be almost double at £2,900 whereas a home will set you again, once more on common, a whopping £682,000.
Following all of the latest regional pay rises, see beneath for the way the corporations examine.
| Agency | Trainee pay (12 months 1) | Trainee pay (12 months 2) | NQ base charge |
| BCLP | Manchester: £30,000 | Manchester: £35,000 | Manchester: £51,000 |
| CMS | Bristol: £41,500; Manchester and Sheffield: £30,000; Edinburgh and Glasgow: £26,775 | Bristol: £42,525; Manchester and Sheffield: £33,075; Edinburgh and Glasgow: £29,925 | Bristol: £61,000; Manchester and Sheffield: £51,750; Edinburgh and Glasgow: £51,750 |
| DLA Piper | All regional places of work: £30,000 | All regional places of work: £33,000 | All regional places of work: £65,000 |
| Eversheds Sutherland | All regional places of work: £28,500 | All regional places of work: £31,000 | All regional places of work: £62,000 |
| Gowling WLG | Birmingham: £29,000 | Birmingham: £32,000 | Birmingham: £52,000 |
| Simmons & Simmons | Bristol: £40,500 | Bristol: £42,500 | Bristol: £68,000 |
| Squire Patton Boggs | All regional places of work: £30,000 | All regional places of work: £33,000 | All regional places of work: £55,000 |
| Trowers & Hamlins | All regional places of work: £30,000 | All regional places of work: £32,000 | All regional places of work: £50,000 |