7th year associate in small RE firm, handling mostly commercial RE matters in an office that mostly deals with residential RE. Salary is 120k currently, with bonuses around 10k/year. We have no billable requirements; and this disturbs me because every recruiter I’ve ever spoken to asks what my billables are. We don’t even have a system to track billables. I’m concerned it makes me less employable in the event I want to switch jobs. What should I do, if anything?

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Sounds like you’ve got it made. Keep building up that client base and don’t worry about whether the grass is greener. It isnt.

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You had no choice but to pass. Do not beat yourself up about it. And thank you for sharing yoir experience.

I got questions about billables when I lateraled from a primarily flat fee firm. I didn’t have any trouble getting offers; I just replied that I had had revenue targets instead of hourly targets, that I’d never had any trouble meeting them, and that seemed to always satisfy people.

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Totally get it. You could also respond with something like “No hourly minimum, but I typically work ___ hours/year”.

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Do you just do everything on flat fee?

Most of the firm’s revenue is flat, yes. Some of my work is hourly, but I have a huge amount of latitude deciding what or how to bill my clients and I’m still trying to figure things out in that regard.

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