Last week we learned that Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has hiked its newly qualified solicitor wedge to a purse-purpling £180,000. For your average Gen Z-er, that buys an awful lot of avocado toast. Heck, it’s nearly enough to buy a two-bedroom flat in one of London’s more agreeable suburbs.

For the record, an NQ at Quinn now trousers more than an assistant chief constable of West Midlands Police, and the president of the Employment Tribunals (to take a couple of humbler jobs at random).

Quinn’s largesse rather stole the thunder of Freshfields, whose own NQs will this year be required to scrape by on a trifling £150,000.

Don’t despair, fresh-faced Freshfields folk (and try saying that when you’ve had a few)! One-bedroom flats are also available.

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