Troutman Pepper Locke Will Pay Associates Market Compensation, Properly, Some Of Them

It’s a match! With an asterisk… or two.

Troutman Pepper Locke is the most recent agency to get on board with the salary scale Milbank set back in June, telling associates it would pay market — efficient January 1, 2027. The agency is matching lockstep for associates of their first by fourth years, which places these courses on a scale that begins at $235,000, as per the beneath.

Midlevel and senior associates are, as is the agency’s custom, off the compensation grid totally. That custom goes again to the Locke Lord merger, when Troutman announced a comp model that paid marketplace for first- and second-years after which sorted everybody senior to that onto a two-tier “normal” or “elevated” scale. As per the agency’s announcement, solely older associates on that larger tier will make the Milbank scale.

So credit score the place it’s due: the grid grew. It used to expire after yr two, and now it runs by yr 4. Two further class years of understanding what your paycheck will say is just not nothing.

Then there’s the date. Milbank’s raises landed this summer time. Troutman’s land January 1, which leaves associates doing the again half of 2026 ultimately yr’s numbers. Troutman is just not the primary agency this cycle to match now and pay later, and it gained’t be the final, however the corporations selecting that possibility aren’t actually paying their associates high greenback.

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