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Salary data websites

Post by Anonymous User » Mon Feb 06, 2017 6:04 pm

Are glassdoor and lawcrossings fairly accurate? The firm I am interested is a midlaw regional firm in a major market and both these sources say this firm pays 180K. I have a hard time believing it because the practice area is generally not lucrative (i.e., government clients).

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Re: Salary data websites

Post by Anonymous User » Mon Feb 06, 2017 6:32 pm

Anonymous User wrote:Are glassdoor and lawcrossings fairly accurate? The firm I am interested is a midlaw regional firm in a major market and both these sources say this firm pays 180K. I have a hard time believing it because the practice area is generally not lucrative (i.e., government clients).
Lawcrossings pegged a firm at $135k/yr for the market I interviewed in. Salary ended up being $95k. I think it becomes less accurate when you're dealing with secondary markets.

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Re: Salary data websites

Post by favabeansoup » Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:37 pm

Anonymous User wrote:Are glassdoor and lawcrossings fairly accurate? The firm I am interested is a midlaw regional firm in a major market and both these sources say this firm pays 180K. I have a hard time believing it because the practice area is generally not lucrative (i.e., government clients).
Are they not on NALP?

Glassdoor can be accurate, but I've seen it be inaccurate many many times.

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Re: Salary data websites

Post by Anonymous User » Tue Feb 07, 2017 4:26 am

favabeansoup wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:Are glassdoor and lawcrossings fairly accurate? The firm I am interested is a midlaw regional firm in a major market and both these sources say this firm pays 180K. I have a hard time believing it because the practice area is generally not lucrative (i.e., government clients).
Are they not on NALP?

Glassdoor can be accurate, but I've seen it be inaccurate many many times.
No. I just realized it pays just as little as my ID factory.

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Re: Salary data websites

Post by clerk1251 » Tue Feb 07, 2017 10:42 am

I wouldn't trust glassdoor or lawcrossing. NALP or Vault will be your best bet. Sometimes the firms put salary data on their careers page as well.

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