For those who are wondering, yes we’ll be running the risk (e.g. intake/conflicts/terms) staffing compensation survey again this year. More details on that soon. But in the meantime…

I’m pleased to take the wraps off of a new survey exercise: The 2024 IG Staffing Compensation Survey!

Over the past two years, we’ve had great response and success with the two risk-focused surveys (2023 saw 126 participants share data on 517 positions, as detailed here), that the IG community reached out asking for their chance. (Thank you to Leigh Zidwick and several other IG experts for their advice, input, and review of this effort as all the pieces came together!)

This survey looks to capture data on the broad range of law firm IG roles. So if you’re an individual contributor looking to understand how your comp compares to your peers, or you’re an IG manager looking to benchmark yourself + to keep your team (and potential new hires) on par with changing market standards, you don’t want to miss out.

SURVEY DETAILS:

• Participation open to law firm IG professionals only
• All responses will be treated confidentially
• Manager participants sharing data on their/their team’s roles and compensation will receive a report summarizing key findings across all roles and analysis relevant to their firm demographics
  • (The report may be shared internally within your firm, but not redistributed externally. So if you want the results, your best path is to participate!)
    
  • The survey includes an optional section collecting qualitative feedback from managers on IG staff hiring, budget, challenges, goals, investment plans and wishes, and other related matters. (While participation in this section is not required, if you’d like visibility into the feedback your peers provide, please share your perspectives here as well.)
• Individual contributor participants sharing personal compensation data will be receive a personal benchmark compensation summary relevant to their specific role and firm demographics.

The survey will be open for the next month or so and can be accessed here: 2024 IG Staffing Compensation Survey.

Feel free to share the link with law firm peers and colleagues — the greater the participation level, the better the results will be. So do pass along to colleagues at your firm and others, share on LinkedIn, remind your colleagues at ILTACON to join in, etc.

And if anyone has questions, please feel free to reach out to me directly. (Email readers can do that by just replying to this message in their inbox — it’ll reach me. Others can use the contact form.)

As I’ve said in the past, I like experiments. Let’s see what we learn from this one!