Anyway, why the fuss over legal pay? I’m pretty sure non-exempt jobs strongly outnumber exempt jobs in the U.S., and that’s a pretty big case of apples & oranges that makes me think that even if we assume, for the sake of argument, that the way law firms set their pay scales is representative of all salaried jobs in the U.S., it’s still not going to be typical since most jobs are waged, not salaried.

Anyway, if you get your withholding set up right, the money that isn’t yours never gets put in your possession to begin with. Yeah, some people say withholding’s bad because of that, but it’s a good material aid to help you keep from counting your chickens before they’ve hatched.

If he can reconcile himself with that situation on the grounds that it makes him politically virtuous, then it’s no problem for him. If he has difficulty accepting that the government is taking more of his money than before and using it on projects he opposes, I’d expect him to be rather upset.

Also, I understand that there are people who are dead-set on major cities.

My point was merely that there is “a solid portion of this country’s work force that wants to live in places like Charlotte, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Tampa and doesn’t require any monetary incentive to do so.”

These people may not be at NYU or Harvard in numbers, but at least a few of them are still “well educated attorneys.” Atlanta was merely an example of a case where firms outside New York have decided they can get satisfactory talent without hiking pay to lure away kids who preferred New York.

that i didn’t make that part clear is my error.

I really try not to be personal in these posts, but this makes it awfully hard. I’ll just say this paragraph offends me, that it’s presumptuous and personally condescending (toward someone you do not know) and that I’d like you to apologize.

i just happen to have a husband working for a huge, multinational, and i happen to have spent five years of my life working for the single biggest public employer in the nation. i also happen to have studied income inequities and changes in grad school.

i suppose, though, i do not have my finger on the pulse of the legal market in georgia.

and i’ll be careful to never use the word “excitement” again.