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{ "media_type": "text", "post_content": "Is anyone willing to share billable requirements and salaries for mid-sized, Chicago market?", "post_id": "5fb67ae7726ecf001ce46ed6", "reply_count": 12, "vote_count": 3, "bowl_id": "552d1d24dc1c586b09d2d052", "bowl_name": "Law", "feed_type": "crowd" }
You are currently posting as works at Associate Attorney

Is anyone willing to share billable requirements and salaries for mid-sized, Chicago market?

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You are currently posting as Attorney 1

I’m not in Chicago personally but know our firm has an 1,850 hour requirement and starts associates at $180k

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You are currently posting as of Counsel 1

yeahhh, 120k & 2000 hr in NYC reading this post like 👀

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Rising Star

OP you don’t say your year. I think that pay is low unless you are a first year and you get a big raise in year two. Take your billing rate times 1800 and divide by 3. That is the old way of determining associate salary. I am in a Chicago boutique and we pay our senior paralegals, who function like 4-5 year attorneys, more than that.

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You are currently posting as Non-equity Partner 1

Some Chicago info mixed into this thread: https://joinfishbowl.com/post_odpt6i

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You are currently posting as Associate Attorney

Thanks!

You are currently posting as Associate 1

I started a year ago at 2000, $110

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You are currently posting as Associate 2

1800, 160k

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You are currently posting as Attorney 2

(Big law but mid-sized Chicago office) 2000 hours, $200,000 base salary + $30k bonus

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You are currently posting as Associate Attorney

I’m at 1800, $90k. Trying to figure out if that’s normal.

You are currently posting as Associate Attorney

I agree, but I love the work. 40+ attorneys. I’m trying to decide if I should ask for more.

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What's everyone hoping to get for Christmas? I got my present early: five months of billable work to start off 2016.

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You are currently posting as works at BDO USA

What are your billable hours requirements during busy season?

You are currently posting as works at CPA / Partner

Does anyone here work for a firm that doesn't track billable hours?

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You are currently posting as works at Tax Staff Accountant

Public Accounting: where BS billable work takes longer than expected. #Pacman

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You are currently posting as works at Tax Associate

What busy season? I ended this week with zero billable hours.

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You are currently posting as works at PwC

this email though– "...busy season to be defined as 9/12 to 12/31. based on client needs, may extend to 3/31. seniors/staff 50-55 billable hours." bc 6 mo of BS should be acceptable... 🙋🏼🔫

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You are currently posting as works at Tax Senior

Is RSM doing layoffs? I am hearing lots of "not enough billable hours" chatter.

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You are currently posting as works at PwC

If Donald trump works from Trump Tower two days a week, is he remote and WFH? As his client, I am not ok with that since his billable rate is really high.

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You are currently posting as works at KPMG

It's 5 PM before the long break. Do you know where your billable hours are? Stay utilized my friend.

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You are currently posting as works at PwC

I hate that our time focus is on billable hours. Minimum 55 hours really means working at least 12 hours M-Th, 10 on Fri, and 6 during the weekend once you factor in G&A and and other random things.

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You are currently posting as works at Staff Accountant

2,158 hours contracted a year. Tax season: 55 hour week minimum with 90% billable time. You?

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You are currently posting as works at Deloitte

Is loyalty a thing in consulting? Project leadership has been offering billable hours from the markup even though there's not much to do. Would it be bad if I leave for other opportunities?

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You are currently posting as works at Deloitte

In need of some billable work to do.

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You are currently posting as works at PwC

Is there a policy for charging billable hours on the weekend? Feel like I should be able to bill 1.5x+ for having to work on the weekend

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You are currently posting as works at Deloitte

Just had a SM call and ask to move over 2 weeks of billable work to a PRD code because the project is over budget. Just checked and this will put me just at 89% utilization for year end (cont.)

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You are currently posting as works at Deloitte

The anxiety doesn't stop. Project restricted to 40 billable hours, but have to work tomorrow because we just have too much to do. Overworked and underutilized. Eff me.

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You are currently posting as works at KPMG

Does anyone count the time required to complete client specific expenses as billable time? It just took me 2 hours to complete 3 weeks worth of expenses!

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You are currently posting as works at Copywriter

There's a lull in copy work across the agency right now. I know work ebbs and flows, but is there a point when i should start actually worrying about lacking billable work?

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You are currently posting as works at Senior Associate

Impromptu hour and a half lunch requested by management. Count towards billable hours? Already at 12-hour days and not really wanting to tack on additional time at end of day

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You are currently posting as works at Tax Associate

Just received an email the other day giving all staff an OT requirement for June.. kind of hard to get that many billable hours in when none of the work is available 🙄

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Ahh it is posting but into middle of feed as opposed to top.

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Posting from the top side.

You are currently posting as works at Merkle

Getting this off my chest!

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You are currently posting as works at Merkle

How does this sound?

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Doing some research on the Ad Tech space in New York. For starters need to know some of the top players... thoughts?

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Seeking encouragement for going on transition without a next step lined up. I can't optimize my job hunt / soul searching while working these hours. Mistake?

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It's not the size of the deck, it's the layout of the slides

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You are currently posting as works at Strategy&, part of the PwC network
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You are currently posting as works at PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) LLP (Consulting Practice)

It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up magazine...now I'm doing SWOTs and making sure the spreadsheet's clean

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You are currently posting as works at Strategy&, part of the PwC network

Anyone else think Dan Price/gravity payments is a joke? So what if your employees make 70k

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You are currently posting as works at Deloitte

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone working on this holiday

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You are currently posting as works at ZS Associates

How long have you been in consulting? 5 years here, time to go.

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You are currently posting as works at New York City

15 hours a day at the client site. Haven't taken a dump in my own bathroom on months

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You are currently posting as works at PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) LLP (Consulting Practice)

Just heard that the new PwC hires are getting around 75k out of undergrad in NYC. I started at 65 and am at 76 a year later (in NYC). Does this mean I'll get some sort of a large raise?

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You are currently posting as works at Accenture

Here's to clients who live by the 2:30pm hard out for the Friday work day

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You are currently posting as works at Accenture

When people ask me what I do, I just say, "I get shit unfucked".

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You are currently posting as works at Accenture

"Gonna add some serious value to her, if you know what I mean"

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You are currently posting as works at Accenture

What does it say that Accenture posts more than anyone else? That we have more to bitch about? Or that we do more than anyone else?

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You are currently posting as works at Deloitte

When a different teammate has gone home with the flu every day this week. Am I next???

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You are currently posting as works at Deloitte

When's the last time you went into the office? Went in for the first time since June today 🙆🏼

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