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I should clarify - most starting salaries are significantly lower here in FL, because the cost of living is so much lower. For example, the same biglaw firm where I worked paid $80K at the FL offices, but $100K at the other offices around the country. In general, you're not going to get $100K unless you go to a big metropolis like NYC, Chicago, Boston, or some California cities.
And the no-first-year bonus issue I think was pretty specific to this firm - related to what they considered the "start" of their year. So while it may appear on paper that 1st years get bonuses, you must work a full year to qualify, so when the bonus date rolled around, you'd be a month short, so NO BONUS FOR YOU! Yet another dirty little trick, and another reason I happily traded in the so-called presige name of the biglaw firm for the one I picked.
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