What’s a fair expectation for my first raise? I’m in-house at a publicly traded co with ~2500 employees. I’ve been doing litigation with the company for almost 3 yrs and have only had a 2% cost of living raise so far. Graduated in 2014. Base comp is $127.5k in the Philly area. I see salaries all over the place in this site and it’s hard to tell whether mine is competitive.

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Absolutely! I don’t think I would accept a job like yours for less than $150k per year + bonus.

I think more info is needed here, including your title (previous and current, if they differ)—i.e. are you a staff attorney, contracts manager, associate corporate counsel, etc.?

IMO, depending on seniority/role/speciality, 2% seems on the lower end or just meeting the minimum, 3% is more the norm, and 3.5-4.5% may be warranted where the roles are higher up the chain. For some reason, I recall reading that, while private practice comps steadily increased in the past year, the pandemic hit traditional companies in different ways causing the recent annual raise wave for in-house folks to be lower than normal.

I’m not sure about Philly specifically, but imagine it’d mostly align (or fall just below) other major cities.

Title is Director and Corporate Counsel, which hasn’t changed. Probably not much room for movement in title since it’s such a small legal team, which will eventually be an issue if I want to stay long term.

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