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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 117828" data-attributes="member: 2672">For any commercial firm, they won’t be negotiable. Maybe a high street firm where there is only trainee, and even then there probably isn’t much room to manoeuvre.Ultimately training contracts are a graduate programme where the cohort are paid the same amount, and for graduate programmes salaries tend to be fixed across cohorts as a matter of fairness. I only know a few exceptions to this, and they have always been outside of the legal sector and for roles with very particular technical skills (eg hard to recruit IT roles). All the time it is easy to recruit for law, candidates are replaceable and therefore there is typically no rationale to offer someone a higher salary.If you felt you brought a certain necessary skill set that other candidates couldn’t, you could try to negotiate the salary, but you’d have to do this carefully and be prepared for them to say no.Even if they did offer one, be mindful that you may find your salary doesn’t increase for sometime until you are aligned with the general employee population too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jessica Booker, post: 117828, member: 2672"] For any commercial firm, they won’t be negotiable. Maybe a high street firm where there is only trainee, and even then there probably isn’t much room to manoeuvre. Ultimately training contracts are a graduate programme where the cohort are paid the same amount, and for graduate programmes salaries tend to be fixed across cohorts as a matter of fairness. I only know a few exceptions to this, and they have always been outside of the legal sector and for roles with very particular technical skills (eg hard to recruit IT roles). All the time it is easy to recruit for law, candidates are replaceable and therefore there is typically no rationale to offer someone a higher salary. If you felt you brought a certain necessary skill set that other candidates couldn’t, you could try to negotiate the salary, but you’d have to do this carefully and be prepared for them to say no. Even if they did offer one, be mindful that you may find your salary doesn’t increase for sometime until you are aligned with the general employee population too. [/QUOTE]

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