I have an opportunity at a PI firm in ID, and was wondering if y'all would please share your pay structure. I am ten years out of law school: 1 yr of PI experience (hourly contract), 4 yr family, landlord-tenant, elder and other legal aid law, and 5 yr in a JD alt job operating a large government program (so I have business sense). I have court exp., just not jury trial exp.

They're asking me for salary expectations, and I don't really know where to start given my varied background. Thx!

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NYC at an ID firm. 7 years of experience. Mostly construction work and a little bit of premises liability. $200k base. $15k bonus at 2100 billable hours and is tiered after that with smaller bonuses

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And thanks for sharing!

Think a lot of people are misunderstanding that the job is in Idaho, doing plaintiffs personal injury work (or at least that’s how I read it).

Based in Texas, 9 yrs experience in PI, 7 of that on the defense side in NYC. In a large plaintiffs firm with a base salary of $170k, handling 80-100 cases across all stages and bonus based on exceeding atty fee goal above 7 figures

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You are correct, plaintiff's side, I ran out of space, dang character limit. Thank you for sharing!

At my firm, your pay structure would be $150k base + 5% of all attorney’s fees for cases assigned to you + 1/3 of all attorney’s fees for all cases you brought in. Outside of that, I give everyone 7 days PTO per quarter & a year-end bonus that’s separate from the commission structure and based on firm & employee performance.

Trial experience would significantly raise the base pay.

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Sorry A2, I just saw your response now weeks later 🤣

I’ll be bringing on associates at the end of the year - anyone interested can DM me for contact info & im happy to chat

What kind of annual hourly billing expectations to they have?

Ah I thought you meant Insurance Defense (ID)

Do they have locations in Washington and Idaho or just Idaho? And where do you live or where are you based out of? In person? Remote? Caseload? Lots of things to determine salary

Very helpful info in re Idaho and Spokane, thank you!

I would consider joining a PI firm that does plaintiff work. If you join the right firm, you could be making upwards of $200K and get litigation experience.

I'm a senior associate at an amlaw 200 firm with what's probably comparable experience to you and I make $192k.

The smaller firms ID in our market would be paying me $90k-100k.

Also though. Why don't you stay on the plaintiffs side for tort work? They're happier and generally make more money.

Ohhhh. I took it as insurance defense torts team 😂

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