Texas Salary Chart

Below are salaries for firms I deal with on a regular basis. I have done my best to update the list as I receive information from the attorneys I speak with on a daily basis. Firms are changing salaries daily, or so it seems. I am sure the chart below is not completely up to date. If you work at one of the firms below and see the information is not current let me know. You may email me at TheLegalRecruiter@gmail.com, and let me know the changes I need to make. At least this chart will give you some ideal of what your colleagues across the street are making as both of you burn the midnight oil. Due to technical difficulties that are beyond my technical abilities to fix the complete chart of Texas Salaries - 1st year - 8th year is listed at the very bottom of this page.

Texas Salaries
Firm/Location	1st Year	2nd Year
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Texas offices (2007)	$160,000	$170,000
Andrews Kurth LLP
Texas offices (July 2007)	$160,000	$170,000
Baker Botts LLP
Texas Offices (August 2007) Bonuses are earned once an associate bills 2000 hours	$160,000 No Bonus	170,000 Bonus $5,000
Baker & Hostetler
Houston, TX (2007)	$160,000	N/A
Baker & McKenzie
Texas offices (August 2007)	$160,000	$170,000
Baron & Budd, P.C.
Dallas, TX (December 2006)	N/A	N/A
Bickel & Brewer
Dallas, TX (December 2006)	$175,000	$180,000
Bracewell & Guiliani LLP
Austin, Dallas, Houston, TX (August 2006)	$160,000	$170,000
Waiting to determine what they are doing for 3rd -- 8th years
Carrington Coleman Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P.
Dallas, TX (December 2006)	$135,000	N/A
Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin
Houston, TX (December 2006)	$107,500	N/A
Clark, Thomas & Winters, A Professional Corporation
Austin and San Antonio, TX (December 2006)	$105,000	N/A
Dechert LLP
Austin, TX; Palo Alto, CA (February 2007)	$150,000	$160,000
Dewey Ballantine LLP
All U.S. offices (January 2007)	$160,000	$170,000
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP
Austin, TX; (February 2007)	$145,000	$155,000
Dallas, TX (February 2007)	$135,000	$155,000
Fish & Richardson P.C.
All offices (January 2007)	$160,000	$170,000
Fulbright & Jaworski
Texas Offices (August 2006)	$135,000	N/A
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
Dallas, Houston, TX (September 1,2007)	$160,000	$145,000*
*Compensation in susequent years will be adjusted based on each associate's individual performance and professional development.
Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody, P.C.
Austin, TX (December 2006)	$105,000	N/A
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
All Offices (August 2006)	$90,000 to $145,000 (market rates in all locations)	N/A
Haynes and Boone, LLP
All offices (August 2007)	$160,000	$170,000
Howrey LLP
Did away with lock-step system and now merit base	$160,000	N/A
Hughes & Luce, LLP
Dallas, TX (December 2006)	$135,000	N/A
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Dallas, TX (December 2006)	$160,000	$170,000
Hunton & Williams LLP
Atlanta, GA; Knoxville, TN; Dallas, TX; Norfolk, VA; Raleigh, NC; Richmond, VA (February 2007)	$145,000	$150,000
Jackson Walker L.L.P.
(August 2007) (Texas)	$160,000	N/A
Jones Day
Houston, TX; Chicago, IL; All California offices (August 2006)	$160,000	$170,000
Dallas, TX (2007)	$160,000	$170,000
Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre L.L.P.
All offices (May 2006)	$90,000	N/A
King & Spalding LLP
Houston, TX (August 2006)	$160,000	$170,000
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP
Dallas, TX; Pittsburgh, PA (August 2006)	$110,000	N/A
Littler Mendelson, P.C.
Atlanta, GA; Dallas, Houston, TX; Long Island, NY; Newark, NJ (August 2006)	$105,000	N/A
Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP
All offices (August 2007)	$160,000*	$170,000
*(starting package of $158,360 including bonuses, bar allowance, moving expenses and parking allowance)
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
Houston, TX (August 2006)	$140,000	$145,000
McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.P.
All offices (December 2006)	$115,000	N/A
McGlinchey Stafford PLLC
All offices (August 2005)	$83,500	N/A
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Dallas, TX (August 2006)	$135,000	N/A
Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C.
Dallas, TX (December 2006)	$135,000	N/A
Patton Boggs LLP
(August 2007) (Dallas, TX)	$160,000	$170,000
Phelps Dunbar LLP
All offices (August 2005) (Houston, TX)	$84,000	N/A
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Houston, TX (August 2005)	$115,000	$124,000
Porter & Hedges LLP
Houston, TX (December 2006)	$135,000	$145,000
Powell Goldstein LLP
All other offices (May 2006)	$115,000	N/A
Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP
All U.S. offices (August 2006) (Austin, Dallas and Houston TX)	$115,000	N/A
Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
Houston, TX (August 2006)	$110,000	N/A
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
All U.S. offices except New York, NY and Washington, DC (February 2007) (Dallas,TX)	$145,000	$155,000
Strasburger & Price LLP
August 2007, first year associate salary is $120,000 in addition to a $10,000 graduation bonus and eligibility for a $10,000 performance bonus, quarterly profit sharing bonus and discretionary bonus. Strasburger is not lock-step after first year	$120,000	N/A
Susman Godfrey L.L.P.
Texas offices (August 1,2007)	$160,000	$170,000
Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP
Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, TX (August 2005)	$126,500	N/A
Thompson & Knight LLP
Texas offices (August 2007)	$160,000	$170,000
Still waiting to see what they do for 3rd - 8th years. I have heard they have anounced but have not gotten the numbers out of anyone
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Austin, Houston, Dallas, TX (July 2007)	$160,000	$170,000
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
All offices (January 2007)(Austin, Dallas and Houston,TX)	$160,000	$170,000
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
All other offices (August 2005) (Austin,TX)	$125,000	$135,000
Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.
All offices (August 2006) (Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Woodlands,TX	$135,000*	N/A
merit-based bonus of up to $25,000