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Depends on where you are. Where do you work (general region)? Also, what is your position? I initially thought an ADA given the bowl you posted in, but don’t want to fully assume because you could work in a different capacity.
In my office, people are paid according to class year and the office refuses provides bonuses/raises by class year. What that means is, everyone in your class year gets the same bonus and raise at the same time. There is no flexibility for ADAs and I know people who have left for that very reason. The one flexibility there is is the initial offer, but that flexibility only applies to people who are coming in as lateral attorneys. For instance, they often try to discount years NOT spent doing criminal (ie you have been an attorney 4 years, 2 of which are spent doing civil work, they may only offer you the starting salary of the attorneys who graduated law school 2 years ago instead of 4). I know people who have successfully advocated to be paid according to their ACTUAL class year (ie attorneys who graduated 4 years ago). However, the office has refused to change their offer for other people who declined the job offer. Sorry this is vaguely confusing, but I’d be happy to speak about it less generally if you have specific questions.
This was a long way to say that there often isn’t a lot of wiggle room. Some offices DO have merit bonuses. But I think in government that is the exception, not the rule, as it’s hard to compare the results of one ADA to another, particularly if they work on different kinds of cases (ie investigations versus general crimes). The best way to find out would be to talk to other people at the office and see what the protocol is. There may even be something in your employee handbook about pay/raises/bonuses. Also be mindful that the office may not actually have control over salaries and that may be controlled by the locality (ie county/city/state/federal jurisdiction).
Feel free to DM me with more questions and/or ask more questions here if you have any.
I worked as an ADA for many years in different size offices and as a general rule your years of experience and the role you sign up for determines your salary.
Some officers do an "attorney grade 1,2,3" and so on along with supervisory roles, and other responsibilities (you may get paid extra to handle a traffic ticket docket).
Generally to make their hiring easier, the office sets a rate based on years of experience and that can be defined differently. Some officers count full time unpaid internships.