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Am Law 100 · Vault Top 25 · Regional Leaders

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2,400+

Firms tracked

$180K–$4M

Comp range covered

Q1 2026

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01
Individual Discovery · Corporate Associate

She was a seventh-year at a V20 firm.
She was $85,000 below market.

Priya had been at the same firm since law school. Three strong reviews. Two pro bono awards. She assumed the lockstep table was the lockstep table — that everyone at her level earned the same. Benchmark showed her the practice group premium her firm wasn't advertising: Corporate M&A at her peer set was running $85K above her current base.

"I had the conversation with a competing offer in hand. I was made whole within six weeks. I never would have known to ask." — Anonymized, V20 Corporate Associate, 7th Year

Corporate M&A Base Salary · 7th Year Associate · Am Law 1–50

P10 (Floor)$285,000
P25$320,000
P50 (Median)$365,000
P75$410,000
P90 (Ceiling)$455,000

Restructuring Partner Comp · By Firm Tier · 2026

Regional Leader$480,000
Am Law 101–200$620,000
Am Law 26–100$810,000
Am Law 1–25$1,050,000
02
Recruiter Intelligence · Partner Lateral

The recruiter closed a $620K lateral
in 11 days. The data closed it.

Marcus was placing a restructuring partner from a regional firm into an Am Law 50 seat. The candidate had a number in his head — one he'd arrived at through informal peer conversations. It was $95K below what the market would bear for his book of business. Marcus walked in with Benchmark's restructuring partner data and closed the gap before the candidate ever hesitated.

"I used to lose deals in the offer stage because candidates thought they were being low-balled. Now I show the data in the first meeting." — Anonymized, Lateral Recruiter, 14 Years

03
Firm Strategy · Compensation Committee

A 280-attorney firm restructured
its bonus tiers in one quarter.

The firm's compensation committee had been using a bonus structure inherited from 2019. Three senior associates had quietly departed for competitors in eighteen months. The exit interviews said the same thing: the bonus table felt arbitrary. Benchmark showed the committee exactly where their discretionary bonus ceiling sat against peer firms — and where the floor needed to move to stop the bleeding.

"We restructured four bonus tiers in Q3. Zero senior associate departures in the twelve months since. The data made the case that internal politics couldn't." — Anonymized, Compensation Committee Chair, Am Law 150

Senior Associate Bonus · Merit vs. Lockstep · Am Law 100–200

Lockstep Floor$40,000
Peer Median (Merit)$72,000
Firm's Previous Ceiling$65,000
Restructured Ceiling$95,000
Market P90 Bonus$145,000
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Equity Partner Compensation · By Firm Tier · 2026

Am Law 1–25

Equity partner median

$380K–$4.2M

Am Law 26–100

Equity partner median

$290K–$2.8M

Am Law 101–200

Equity partner median

$210K–$1.6M

Regional Leaders

Equity partner median

$175K–$900K

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