Benefit Packages and Successful Salary Negotiations
Benefits Packages
In most private practice and In House legal teams, the salary is greatly enhanced by the value of a broader benefits package. This can include a bonus, pension, medical insurance, car allowance, travel allowance etc. The Re Legal consultant who specialises in your area of the law will be able to discuss this further with you.
Successful Salary Negotiations
Many of the factors relevant to salary negotiations are obvious, for example:
- knowledge of a specialised area of the law;
- outstanding billing performance;
- a good client base;
- business contacts and/or good business development skills;
- the ability to manage people;
- the ability to train people; and
- the ability to recruit and attract staff.
Sometimes, more obscure factors can be relevant, factors which you may not know or which it may not occur to you to raise. It may be that there is a shortage of good lawyers with the right experience for the positions on offer. If this is the case, not only can a good candidate for the position command a great salary, but those already working in similar positions can use the market to their advantage in their salary negotiations.
Expert help from Re Legal consultants
When applying for legal jobs, other factors might arise out of the particular culture of a firm, or the quirk of a team leader. As experienced recruiters for law jobs, we make it our business to know these things.
