Probably been asked before. Curious to know how partners at your firm are compensated.

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No clue-but interested in knowing as well.

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Is your question related to how partners are paid (ie, minimum draw plus equity distributions for equity partners) or is your question relate to how compensation for partners is actually determined (ie, formulaic or not, weighted factors like matter credit vs origination, realizations, etc)?

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Ok I see. There is a wide disparity amongst AmLaw firms on partner pay but here’s the jist of it. I will try and address both payment mechanics as well as factors in compensation setting.

Non-equity partners are typically paid on a fixed draw per month set for the year. Some firms pay X / 12 months per month, some pay a minimum draw plus some holdback towards the end of the year (or following year). Most are lockstep at this level with some potential bonus to reward exceptional performance (ie, collections on own time, originations, some other extraordinary effort).

Equity partners vary more. Some firms set a number of points (essentially % ownership stake in the firm’s profits), some set a minimum fixed draw and then have quarterly or year end payouts based on how the firm performs against the year’s budget. Typically equity partners do not earn a bonus - the notion being equity bear the risk of a firm doing poorly, but also have the upside of a firm blowing the doors off budget in any given year. Again there are variations on all of that.

As for factors, most of it relates really to equity partner compensation as non-equity partners are typically lockstep. Where this varies is mostly with respect to non equity partner bonuses which I covered above.

For equity, it’s all over the place depending on the firm. Some are purely formulaic - Greenberg comes to mind as does Haynes and Boone to some extent - they input your supervisory credit (collected dollars only) on matters and origination and viola our comes a number on the other side. Other firms are less eat what you kill - they do not use a hard formula but give some internal measure to both supervised collections, originations and firm involvement (ie, practice group leadership, committee involvement, recruiting, etc). Some firms weigh the hours more (ie, tilt towards supervising/actual hours and work), some firms weigh and compensate originators more. More and more firms are tending to pay originators heavier than pure work but it varies.

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Pay ourselves a salary and then we take additional distributions every quarter depending on how well we do that quarter

How are nonequity paid? Just salary?

At my firm there are two equity partners and four nonequity. Not sure how the equity guys do it but the nonequity partners get a salary and bonus same as associates.

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