My billable hours bonus requirement/target is 1900. Unless I pull a 300 hour month in December, I won’t be hitting that. The reason being is that in June, I had a parent pass which required me to travel overseas to take care of arrangements. I also had another family emergency in October that also required me to travel overseas. Do you guys think the firm will take this into consideration?

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Maybe. It’s a covid year. Why don’t you ask before you kill yourself.

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It is firm specific, you won’t get better advice than that here.

At one firm I worked at, the cutoff was quite literal and good associates who put in lots of quality non-billable time got shafted because their billables were (supposedly) about 15 below the threshold. At another, those even significantly below the threshold still got full bonuses.

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Did you take any leave while you were dealing with any of you family matters (like
bereavement leave)? If so, I would think that your annualized target should be adjusted - the same as if you took parental leave - generally, the bonus threshold is adjusted proportionately. But agree - you should ask, very firm/policy specific.

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Took bereavement leave in June and for my October issues, I continued to work but (and my supervising partner understood this) not at the level (meaning hours) that I normally do. Thanks for your response!

You should definitely ask/bring it up ahead of time. They may not even be thinking about that

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