Originally Posted by Unregistered

This is correct. With frontload as it has always been.

I think the confusion concerns the frame of reference for the first full year salary. 7.5K to 7.8K is correct. But some people refer to it as NQ while others call it 1 PQE.

Technically NQ would be the 4 month "stub year" between Aug mass call and Dec. That's when junior assocs are paid 6.8K. Thereafter, their salary increases to 7.5K at the start of Jan.

So both are actually correct.