What's a market bonus for a 3rd year associate, litigation/regulatory practice, from v20 to firms v40 and up? (NY if it matters)

First offer was $30k signing and guaranteed full year end bonus. Seems like a lot and I'm not sure any of the $50k+ bonuses I've been seeing are for non-corporate roles

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That’s the high end. Most litigators would be content to just get guaranteed full year-end right now.

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That’s a lot for litigation

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Litigation recruiters emailing me say “most firms will pay you a full second special bonus, a full year-end bonus, and a signing bonus, too.”

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All while working from home indefinitely with a clear path to partnership

Never hurts to ask.

I'm in lit, am a 3rd year, and only got 15K. With that being said, I lateraled to a different jurisdiction and they're giving me 3 weeks paid leave to study for and take the bar exam. It doesn't count towards my PTO days. Between that and paying the exam registration fees and such, it comes out to be a value of about 30K.

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