Looking for compensation feedback. What is typical plaintiff’s PI atty pay structure? What is fair for a 4th year associate in suburban Midwest PI firm with 10 attys?

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It depends if you are salary or commission based. Our firm is commission so all attorneys are contract attorneys and their compensation depends on the “you eat what you kill” method.

What kind of commission?

My firm does a base pay of about 50k/ year and then about 3% of each settlement. The longer you’ve been here, the better cares you get. Theoretically giving you more money.

I’m in WA State

90k plus commission

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