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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Maybe not dying, but really sick

I guess by now folks have heard about the Boston law firm that posted an entry-level job at $10,000 a year. They've received 32 applications in the week the job's been posted. To put this in perspective, my first newspaper job paid $200 per week -- about $800 a year more than this gig. And that was 1985. In rural North Carolina, not Boston.

Sure, the gig pays a clothing allowance and has benefits. And the compensation is based on an estimate of time billed and collected for a first-year associate at a smallish domestic-law firm, so it could be more. A little, anyway. But still, this is depressing. Boston is not the cheapest city to live in. Considering that Boston College law students pay about $44,000 a year, this is making that kind of investment look foolish. To be fair, the entry-level salary for Big Law in Boston is about $160,000 a year. But are those jobs as numerous as in the past? Maybe not. Whatever the case, it makes me feel a little better about temp pay. But not much.

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