Those in ID at regional firms: what are your billables and how do your bonuses work? I’m curious to see where ours are in comparison. 2,080 requirement.

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Wow. At least the big law hours pretend to implicate two weeks vacation 40x50, but 40x52 just seems dramatically more tone deaf.

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….And that’s not even to be considered for a bonus…

At my last ID sweatshop our requirement was 2,400.

Our bonus was 1/3 our accounts receivable at the end of the year minus our salary. They were uncapped which did lead to a lot of huge bonuses for those that brought in plaintiffs cases (we did some of those too for high value and if no conflict, but didn’t advertise as a plaintiffs firm).

I made 85,000 a year and if you billed your 200/month at our average rate of $135 you usually brought in around $310,000 a year which meant your total comp was around $100,000 so $15,000 bonus.

If you brought in a plaintiff’s case you got 1/2 the fees received into your accounts receivable so a 2nd year associate got a 500k bonus one year. That’s the only way the firm gets people to stay with the hope that it could be them one day.

Isn’t it crazy to think you could make more being a government lawyer, and with those hours either be the best gov lawyer there ever was or have a second job 🤯

Our billable requirement is 1,860. For bonus we get $20 per hour billed 156-175 and $30 per hour for hours billed 176 and above each month. At the end of the year we get $3,000 if they collect $295k and 20 percent of collections over $295k

My last firm was 2100 for a 5k bonus and then 1K for every 100 hours after also 10% of everything over 250k that is received.. I left it and left law I can make the same for less work doing something else

I’m at a small firm doing mainly ID and have no billable requirement. I work 8:30-6 most days and no one has said anything. 100k base and my bonus is small - maybe 5k.

Damn. I billed 1700 last year and made $225k as a first year. You should bounce

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