Reading Time: < 1 minuteTen Percent Legal Salary Guide – June 2025. Each month we publish a list of any salary levels we become aware of from employers in relation to jobs offered and salaries indicated. These are the salaries we have had indicated by law firms to us for 3 years PQE and upwards. London figures in brackets where relevant.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSalary Guide for Solicitors & other Legal Staff from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment – May 2025.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow (not) to Negotiate a Pay Rise – an article on the most ridiculous things done or asked for with a pay rise or annual review. Article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTen Percent Legal Recruitment Salary Guide – April 2025 – salary ranges from specialist UK legal recruitment consultants.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTen Percent Legal Salary Review – March 2025, produced by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and covering our market knowledge of salaries for solicitors, legal executives, fee earners and legal support staff.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSalary levels for solicitors and lawyers in the UK from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, specialists for solicitor recruitment.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSalary guide for solicitors, October 2024 from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. Based on figures given by clients, candidates and placements.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSalary guide for solicitors from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, September 2024. Specialist legal recruiters for the UK. September 2024 guide.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSalary Guide – August 2024 – guide for solicitors in the UK with regular monthly updates from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, specialists for permanent legal recruitment in the UK for solicitors and legal executives in private practice and in house legal departments.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSalary Guide – July 2024 from Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment, specialist legal recruiters for solicitors in the UK looking for high street law firm jobs, in house roles and niche commercial practice opportunities.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSalary Guide – June 2024 – from the Ten Percent Group of Legal Recruitment Websites including Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSalary guide for solicitors from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment for May 2024. Guide for lawyers in the UK with range of salaries.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPro rata, what does it mean. Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment including the formula for calculating pro rata pay.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSalary guide for solicitors April 2024 from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. Specialist permanent legal recruiters for UK solicitors.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSalary guide from Ten Percent Legal, March 2024 – for solicitors, legal executives, lawyers and fee earners.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLawyer salary guide for February 2024 from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, including rates for England and London.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSalary guide for solicitors and legal employers in relation to jobs offered and salaries indicated, from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEach month we publish a list of any salary levels we become aware of from employers in relation to jobs offered and salaries indicated. This is our November 2023 guide.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSalary guide for solicitors and legal executives for October 2023 from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. Salary levels updated monthly.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA recent law graduate has asked an extremely pertinent question regarding future career plans: “In your professional opinion, how much do sole practitioners (on the high street working in family/conveyancing) tend to make annually? Also more generally, would you say, despite the over supply of law graduates and the SRA’s soon to be new route…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHourly Rates of Pay for Locum Solicitors and Legal Executives Although conveyancing rates increased over the last four weeks, we will now see a drop in hourly rates as we get closer to Christmas. September tends to remain fairly high as demand has traditionally still been strong. £35 per hour in Conveyancing is still the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesCandidate Shortages in Wills & Probate and Conveyancing – myths and legends As I write this brief article, I can reflect that I could probably have written the same article in any year between 2011 and 2017. In fact if you are reading this in 20 years’ time, and Donald Trump hasn’t ended the world…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAsk a Recruitment Consultant – questions this month on our chat bot Questions sent to us via our new Chat service online, together with general career questions emailed across. We do our best to answer all queries, sometimes after a fairly lengthy delay if we are busy! Why is there a shortage of private client…
Reading Time: 2 minutesSalary reviews – how not to approach them – a guide for employers/partners Here are our top tips for salary reviews and avoiding any increases in salary. 1. Repeatedly postpone or cancel the salary review for up to 6 months. Top tip. 2. During the salary review continue to work whilst occasionally glancing up and…
Reading Time: 2 minutesSalary Myths and the Legal Profession The legal profession is plagued by salary myths. How many times have high street solicitors been speaking to acquaintances and informed that as they are a solicitor they must be earning loads of money, at least 6 figures? How many law students still start their degree course thinking that…
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Recently my firm have offered me a role as a salaried partner and informed me that I am being promoted. My salary will remain the same because they cannot afford a paying fee but I will be invited to partnership meetings and asked to assist with the management of the firm. What should I do?…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe choice of benefits varies quite considerably, but you need to know why employers will like or dislike them. When that time of the year comes up when you actually get to discuss your salary and package rather than just thinking about it, it is important to have all the facts to hand. You can…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnnual reviews & and salary reviews are one area of practice that a lot of lawyers deal with poorly as they fail to prepare for them, and do not appreciate the opportunity you have when attending them. Annual reviews can consist of an apologetic partner ticking boxes on a pre-printed form, whether to simply add…
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the most common calls we get from solicitors, trainee solicitors, barristers and legal executives is “how much money should I be looking for?” Quite understandable, considering most lawyers do not work simply to help their clients, but to pay the mortgage! Most lawyers work in offices where each fee earner does not know…