Compensation & Benefits

Compensation & Benefits

Taft offers a competitive starting salary for our new associates. Our starting salary, effective Jan. 1, 2025, is $215,000 in Chicago and Washington, DC, $200,000 in Minneapolis, $185,000 in Cleveland, and $175,000 in Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Detroit, and Indianapolis.

In addition, Taft provides a comprehensive offering of benefits and educational support.

Competitive Benefits:

• Health insurance options.
• Flexible spending account program.
• Life insurance.
• Accidental death & dismemberment policy.
• Long-term disability policy.
• Moving expenses.
• 401(k) plan.
• Sixteen-week paid parental leave, with additional four weeks of unpaid leave available.
• Emergency child care and elder care.

Education Support:

• Bar study stipend of $8,000.
• Reimbursement for Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) expenses, bar review courses, and exam.
• Payment of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses.