Navigating Salary Expectations as an Experienced Attorney: Making a Career Change

Description

• Salary expectations: Employers prioritize cost-effectiveness over experience.
• Pay considerations: Businesses hire based on the lowest possible cost.
• Experience disadvantage: Having more experience may not be advantageous.
• Business operations: Companies aim for low costs and high profits.
• Value factors: Longevity and hiring the best people matter to businesses.
• Convincing employers: If you prove your worth, employers may pay accordingly.
• Market expectations: Be cautious when discussing salary; align with market norms.

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So salary expectations are okay with you; no one will pay you more because you have more experience. Businesses pay as little or as much as they can get if a business is hiring you to do something, and they can hire someone more cheaply. They don't care that you are an attorney.

If anything, that's a drawback.

So again, businesses run their businesses. They aim to keep the costs low to make as much profit as possible. That's how they operate. Now, they also value things like longevity, and they value. Hiring the best people for the roles, but your salary expectations do not concern them.

If you're excellent and they feel like you're worth it, and you can convince them to hire you, they will.

So your salary expectations, you must be very careful when you bring those into the equation. You can only bring these expectations to what an employer should do to their expectations are what they are, what's what the market is.