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Rising 3L with an offer to work for Big 4 International/M&A in a major market. I was wondering what the salary stat is for associates with JD only. There seems to be only stat on people with LLM. What would be a all in for big 4 NY international/M&A all in? Thank you.

I would also like to know what the salary stat for JD only.

At my Big4 ITS in NYC, first year JDs get a base of $100,000.

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Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:10 am

At my Big4 ITS in NYC, first year JDs get a base of $100,000.

Yes, this is what I got at NYC Big 4 ITS when starting in Fall 2016 also. For some further data, I was up to ~125k after 3 rounds of raises before transferring internally to a lower COL city in the last year and took a pay cut to a little over 100k.

Big4 in Houston started at $72,000 for a JD only a few years ago.

EY was 115k starting for M&A tax last year if you had an LLM and were in a higher COL area (NY/Boston/LA etc).

My friend is a JD only in a high COL city. She lateraled to a big 4 as a 3rd year and was offered $125k. The gap closed between JD and LLM after the first couple of years.

JD salary for one of the specialty groups (ex: SALT) started at were between 75-80k in a major COL city (think SF, LA) a few years ago, about 80k now.