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Pay Parity Across Legal Markets: Multiple Perspectives

As firms across the country lift associate salaries, some are opting to pay the same in all U.S. offices outside New York, while others still pay less in secondary markets like Philadelphia, Atlanta or Miami.

40 minute read February 27, 2006 at 01:25 PM
By
Kellie Schmitt
Pay Parity Across Legal Markets: Multiple Perspectives

Editor's Note: This article focuses on how firms justify compensation adjustments, or the lack thereof, for branches in different geographic areas. This important aspect of compensation was alluded to indirectly in several of our recent articles on associate compensation, but the same concern obviously applies more broadly.

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