Thanks everyone for the incredible response so far. We’re still hoping that we can triple the number of responses received compared to last year’s survey, but that will require a few more more of you taking time out of your day to enter your details. The upside is that you can have your views heard on a big stage. Here’s what a few people have had to say so far:
Mallesons Senior Associate:
A culture that has increasingly ignored the need to grow/change to encompass the diversity of needs of our workforce. Specifically female senior associates and partners requiring flexibility to meet family pressures. With over 60% of our graduate & junior intake being high performing women we will continue to lose top-talent to in-house or smaller firms. When I think about what I have foresaken to remain Partner to my children I want to weep. We talk up “family-friendly” hours and flexibility – it is pure spin.
Norton Rose 4th Year:
Has global ambitions (read: pretensions), but it just can’t shake off its provincial ways – or at least it has a long way to go. The partners don’t have the gravitas to bring in big-ticket healine deals. Needs a clean out of the dead wood.
Watson Mangioni Senior Lawyer:
Idiosyncracies are allowed to flourish, but this has its problems if said idiosyncracies are personality disorders. Generally the firm isn’t too bad to work for save for the perennial issue of rapacious partners and one or two utter c***s.
Sick of remuneration opacity? Sick of not knowing what the guys across the road are being paid? Then stop the clock , charge one less billable unit today and do your bit to bring industry clarity on the issue of pay – fill in the Firm Spy/Legal Monkey 2011 Salary Survey.
The survey is available at this link.
The excellently-constructed questionnaire is completely anonymous and is a reference that Firm Spy will use to write a comprehensive 2011 Salary Report and more generally as a reference point to inform our stories for the rest of the year. Many people across many firms are anxious to know how competitive their salary truly is, rather than just relying on the integrity of partners to provide honest information to recruitment agencies who, in turn, use that info to create industry remuneration benchmarks. It is dubious, the stakes are high, and your money is on the line.
Most of our readers will now have had their performance reviews and received salary increases for the 2011 financial year. Please take a few minutes out of your day to share your details and to help bring some salary transparency to corporate Australia. We’re only keeping the survey open for a limited time this year, so please make sure you complete the very short survey as soon as possible.
To those visiting from the Big4 accounting firms, please also feel free to add your details too.
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How about adding to your list at least: Bakers, Dibbs, DLA, Gadens, Herbert Geer HDY, Holding Redlich, HWL, Landers, Maddocks, McCulloughs, Middletons, Sparke Helmore and Thomsons?
It’d be interesting to see what kind of numbers A&O and CC are offering, but I don’t suppose there’s much chance of that.
Tried to access the survey:
‘Access to this website has been denied because of its content categorization “Web Applications”‘.
Ah well, I don’t suppose anyone else will try to fill it in at work.
Who are PWC Legal? Were they an old firm that’s changed names?
Any chance of a separate one for accounting firms???
+1 for the separate accounting firms survey idea
@JD – PwC legal is exactly as it is named – PwC’s legal division. In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s the biggest law firm in the world by revenue given its sheer size as part of the PwC network.
@Beedub
PwC Legal would not even be in the top 50 of law firms in the world by revenue if you are only counting the revenue produced by PwC legal (cf. PwC as a whole).
Good work on the salary survey. So sick of the opacity of the Australian legal system. In the US/UK everyone knows the scoop – just Google legal salaries and everything is out in the open, including bonus payments and other benefits/burdens.
Wtf is taking so long… hurry up and release the results!
Any day now…
Hurry the f*** up
Didi Mao!