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Go on, admit it: you’re pretty interested in how much you could earn as a solicitor. We’ve compiled a list of the starting trainee solicitor salaries on offer at some of the top law firms in the UK. Although we try to be accurate, salaries may vary from those shown and this table should only be used as a guide.
| Law Firms | LPC Fees |
LPC Grant |
GDL Fees |
GDL Grant |
Starting Salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addleshaw Goddard (London) | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £7,000 | £37,000 |
| Addleshaw Goddard (Manchester) | Yes | £4,500 | Yes | £4,500 | £25,000 |
| Akin Gump | Yes | £8,000 | Yes | £8,000 | £43,000 |
| Allen & Overy | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £7,000 | £42,000 |
| Ashurst LLP | Yes | £6,500 | Yes | £6,500 | £41,000 |
| Baker & McKenzie LLP | Yes | £8,000 | Yes | £6,000 | £42,000 |
| Berwin Leighton Paisner | Yes | £7,200 | Yes | £7,200 | £40,000 |
| Bird & Bird | Yes | £5,000 | Yes | £5,000 | £36,000 |
| Bond Dickinson | Yes | £6,000 | Yes | £6,000 | Competitive |
| Bristows LLP | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £7,000 | £36,000 |
| Brown Jacobson (Midlands) | Yes | £5,000 | Yes | £5,000 | £25,500 |
| Burges Salmon | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £7,000 | £34,750 |
| Cleary Gottlieb | Yes | £8,000 | Yes | £8,000 | £42,000 |
| Clifford Chance | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £7,000 | £42,300 |
| CMS Cameron McKenna (Bristol) | Yes | £7,500 | Yes | £7,500 | £32,000 |
| CMS Cameron McKenna (London) | Yes | £7,500 | Yes | £7,500 | £40,000 |
| CMS Cameron McKenna (Scotland) | Yes | £7,500 | Yes | £7,500 | £22,500 |
| Dechert LLP | Yes | £10,000 | No | £10,000 | £41,000 |
| Dentons (London) | Yes | £6,000 | No | £6,000 | £40,000 |
| Dentons (Outside London) | Yes | £5,000 | Yes | £5,000 | £40,000 |
| DLA Piper (English Regions) | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £7,000 | £27,000 |
| DLA Piper (London) | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £7,000 | £40,000 |
| DLA Piper (Scotland) | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £7,000 | £24,000 |
| DWF LLP (London) | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | £36,000 |
| DWF LLP (Other) | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | £25,000 |
| Farrer & Co | Yes | £6,000 | Yes | £6,000 | £35,000 |
| Field Fisher Waterhouse | Yes | £6,000 | Yes | £5,500 | £37,500 |
| Freshfields | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £7,250 | £41,000 |
| Herbert Smith Freehills | Yes | £6,000 | Yes | £6,000 | £42,000 |
| Hogan Lovells | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £8,000 | £42,000 |
| Holman Fenwick Willan | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | £36,000 |
| Ince & Co (London) | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £6,500 | £36,000 |
| Irwin Mitchell (London) | Yes | £4,500 | Yes | £4,500 | £36,000 |
| Irwin Mitchell (Other) | Yes | £4,500 | Yes | £4,500 | £25,000 |
| King & Wood Mallesons | Yes | £7,250 | Yes | £7,250 | £39,250 |
| Latham & Watkins | Yes | £8,000 | Yes | £8,000 | £42,000 |
| Lewis Silkin | Yes | £6,000 | Yes | £6,000 | £34,000 |
| Macfarlanes LLP (London) | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £7,000 | £38,000 |
| Mayer Brown LLP (London & Guildford) | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £7,000 | £37,500 |
| Michelmores (Bristol) | Yes | £5,000 | Yes | £5,000 | £27,000 |
| Michelmores (Exeter) | Yes | £5,000 | Yes | £5,000 | £22,000 |
| Nabarro (London) | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £6,000 | £37,000 |
| Nabarro (Sheffield) | Yes | £6,000 | Yes | £5,000 | £25,000 |
| Norton Rose Fulbright | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £6,000 | £41,000 |
| O’Melveny & Myers | Yes | £8,000 | Yes | £8,000 | £41,000 |
| Olswang | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | £37,000 |
| Orrick | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £7,000 | £38,000 |
| Osborne Clarke (Bristol) | Yes | £6,500 | Yes | £6,500 | £32,000 |
| Osborne Clarke (London & Thames Valley) | Yes | £6,500 | Yes | £6,500 | £36,000 |
| Penningtons (London) | Yes | £5,000 | No | £0 | £33,000 |
| Penningtons (Other) | Yes | £5,000 | No | £0 | £26,500 |
| PwC Legal | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £6,000 | Competitive |
| Reed Smith | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £6,000 | £38,500 |
| Rosenblatt | Yes | £6,000 | Yes | £6,000 | £35,000 |
| RPC (London) | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £7,000 | £37,000 |
| Shearman & Sterling | Yes | £8,000 | Yes | £8,000 | £45,000 |
| Shoosmiths LLP | Yes | £14,000 | Yes | £12,000 | £24,000 |
| Sidley Austin LLP | Yes | £7,000 | Yes | £7,000 | £44,000 |
| Simmons & Simmons (London) | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | £40,000 |
| Skadden Arps | Yes | £8,000 | Yes | £8,000 | £42,000 |
| Slaughter and May | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | £41,000 |
| Taylor Wessing | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | £38,000 |
| Veale Wasbrough Vizards | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | £23,000 |
| Weil Gotshal & Manges | Yes | £8,000 | Yes | £8,000 | £46,000 |
| White & Case | Yes | £7,500 | Yes | £7,500 | £44,000 |
| Withers | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | £34,000 |