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Do what you think will benefit your work life balance and mental health. I know paralegals, myself included, who can make over 100k in NYC, so stick with it, but always keep your options open just as the law firms or corporations you work for do.
Is it $150k base and then a % of everything you settle/win? That's how most PI in Atlanta get paid. But most people I know in PI freaking love it.
Otherwise 150 seems low for California. I'm in ID and make $183k with 7 years experience. Surely the cost of living is higher there.
I agree with A1, 150k is really low for 7 YOE. I would only lateral if you’re being offered more, not just work life balance. It might be too late but I would have agreed on 150k base, 10% take of all cases settled in pre-litigation. I wouldn’t ever go into PI without a share of the settlements. I did pre-litigation PI before, it is very easy and can be repetitive. There’s not much of a learning gap in pre-lit, and a cap on how great you can be at pre-lit. If you’re ok with knowing that, and only care about the WLB then enjoy! Pre-lit salaries are always lower, since the real money is in plaintiff litigation. Pre lit stuff is all high volume, settling for nominal amounts in MVAs.
You don’t sound like you have a firm idea of the law you want to practice and what you want to do generally. I’d do some self-exploration, informational interviews, and research so you can be intentional with your career path and job search instead of job hopping. I’m not sure why if you don’t love litigation you’d go into PI pre-lit anyways… it can’t be for money either because that sounds like insurance defense well, particularly based on that salary. If money is the motivator there are way more and better options available, if work/life balance is what you are looking for, also a wide variety of in-house opportunities you could pursue with an employment litigation background.
Hi how do you plan on going back on the offer after having accepted it? It would be burning bridges with that firm right?
Oh I’m going to go through with the job since I already accepted.
I’m a 5th year in SoCal and work at a ID firm and my base is 165k + bonuses. That’s pretty low imho especially with high hours.