I don't think legal work has or should have pay grades across the board, like in the civil service or elsewhere. A lot of it depends on the individual

I think fellow lawyers will automatically recognise that "my friend at B4 makes $x so I should too" makes for a very poor argument if said person is hopelessly incompetent. The nature of work and output differs widely. If it were all the same, then why even have a taxation regime, or protest against scaled costs in liti, right?

Most of this discussion is a good guide, but this post is really just a push back against that sense of entitlement. NQ: Think long and hard before you claim the work you do is worth you being paid nearly $6k a month, because very, very few of you are worth it. What the firm is actually paying for is the potential promised by your uni and your grades.