What is a reasonable pay increase + bonus? This will be my first pay increase. I make 70k and I will be starting my second year at big law (immigration). I had 2 years of prior experience before joining the firm. My manager rated me highest in all areas and mentioned she recommended me for promotion but it may not happen until next cycle since there are limited number of promotions to give. I will get a pay increase regardless so I want to negotiate in case I don’t get a “good” increase.

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Don’t take less than 100k. It is inflation and 70k was the price like 20 years ago.

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I’m a big law LA and make a 6 figure salary.

Sorry I just realized that you’re title is a paralegal. I can’t speak to that unfortunately.

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70k and big law do not go in the same sentence. Pretty sure berry appleman and fragomen both pay over 100k

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Yeah AA2, that’s exponentially more clear

Where I am everyone gets roughly a 2-5% pay increase, associates and paralegals. It’s to account for increases in costs of living, so I would say that’s a pretty good pay increase.

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Not sure what “reasonable” is in this particular instance but potentially somewhere around 5% pay increase and $5-10k bonus. Depending on how well the firm is doing. Just as an aside - this doesn’t sound like a biglaw salary. Our first years are making $170- 200k (city dependent) and we are on the lower end for biglaw.

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