In-house lawyers - moving from Senior Counsel level to Associate General Counsel

[Anonymous]

For those who are in house, how much of a bump in compensation would you want to make a move from Senior Counsel (lawyer with many years of experience but in an individual contributor role) to Associate General Counsel at a new company managing a small team. I’m thinking that a 20% (or more) bump in total compensation would make it worth it, but am considering making such a move and curious to see what others think.

[Anonymous]

20% seems light. You’ll add 20% to your working hours by managing a team and having a greater level of responsibility. Give me like 40%

[Anonymous]

Senior counsel somewhere is AGC elsewhere. But you seem to distinguish as now being supervisory, and I would say that paired with working at a new company(risk) I wouldn’t do it for less than 30%. Also, a new company likely isn’t paying its in house staff what a larger established company would, so, temper your expectations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Senior counsel somewhere is AGC elsewhere. But you seem to distinguish as now being supervisory, and I would say that paired with working at a new company(risk) I wouldn’t do it for less than 30%. Also, a new company likely isn’t paying its in house staff what a larger established company would, so, temper your expectations.

I read new in the OP has new to OP, not necessarily a start up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those who are in house, how much of a bump in compensation would you want to make a move from Senior Counsel (lawyer with many years of experience but in an individual contributor role) to Associate General Counsel at a new company managing a small team. I’m thinking that a 20% (or more) bump in total compensation would make it worth it, but am considering making such a move and curious to see what others think.

Nothing. I've been a supervisor before I went to law school, now an Attorney-Advisory, non-supervisory GS-15. I don't care how much I would get paid, nothing would be worth giving up more of my free time and dealing with the headaches of managing people.

[Anonymous]

Thanks - I appreciate the input. By new company, I meant a new employer for me (not a startup company). My current total comp is $300,000. They’ve told me the comp for the position I’m considering is $350,000 to $400,000. I don’t know that it would be worth it at $350,000, but maybe at $400,000. Trying to decide whether to move to the next stage - I’m pretty comfortable where I am but more compensation would be nice especially given inflation!