Legal Business 100 2018: Partner earnings

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Top 50 firms ranked by highest top of equity

Rank (1-50*)	Firm	Equity partners	Non-equity partners	% of partners that are equity partners	PEP	Equity spread
1	Slaughter and May	106	6	95%	£2,664k	£1,590k to £3,250k
2	Fieldfisher	67	156	30%	£728k	£250k to £3,200k
3	Clifford Chance	392	165	70%	£1,597k	£740k to £2,800k
4	Hogan Lovells	556	280	67%	£996k	£275k to £2,750k
5	Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer	394	0	100%	£1,734k	£409k to £2,558k
6	Allen & Overy	389	149	72%	£1,640k	£960k to £2,410k
7	DLA Piper	492	727	40%	£994k	£320k to £2,300k
8	Macfarlanes	53	34	61%	£1,743k	£900k to £2,250k
9	Norton Rose Fulbright	714	475	60%	£652k	£435k to £2,200k
10	Linklaters	440	20	96%	£1,537k	£800k to £2,100k
11	Eversheds Sutherland	191	486	28%	£821k	£375k to £1,550k
12	Simmons & Simmons	160	116	58%	£688k	£350k to £1,500k
13	Mishcon de Reya	54	69	44%	£1,000k	£462k to £1,500k
14	Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner	84	111	43%	£586k	£280k to £1,400k
15	CMS	598	449	57%	£536k	£211k to £1,416k
16	Travers Smith	47	24	66%	£1,194k	£600k to £1,400k
17	Clyde & Co	213	202	51%	£660k	£336k to £1,344k
18	Watson Farley & Williams	83	69	55%	£507k	£225k to £1,300k
19	Herbert Smith Freehills	325	136	70%	£853k	£470k to £1,260k
20	Taylor Wessing	251	96	72%	£580k	£366k to £1,237k
21	Holman Fenwick Willan	89	79	53%	£535k	£278k to £1,206k
22	RPC	83	0	100%	£348k	£185k to £1,200k
23	Pinsent Masons	178	250	42%	£659k	£351k to £1,148k
24	Stephenson Harwood	94	76	55%	£620k	£367k to £1,146k
25	Addleshaw Goddard	105	128	45%	£648k	£262k to £1,112k
26	Osborne Clarke	66	185	26%	£711k	£419k to £1,013k
27	Ashurst	239	136	64%	£743k	£384k to £1,150k
28	Bird & Bird	113	197	36%	£550k	£372k to £947k
29	DAC Beachcroft	89	160	36%	£528k	£430k to £900k
30	DWF	68	221	24%	£327k	£200k to £900k
31	Gowling WLG	376	177	68%	£495k	£160k to £896k
32	Irwin Mitchell	79	153	34%	£613k	£250k to £750k
33	Kennedys	81	194	29%	£401k	£216k to £720k
34	Freeths	40	106	27%	£513k	£290k to £650k
35	Withers	80	79	50%	£403k	£183k to £629k
36	Penningtons Manches	35	76	32%	£491k	£300k to £500k
37	Charles Russell Speechlys	74	92	45%	£420k	£232k to £580k
38	Ince & Co	75	24	76%	£256k	£140k to £550k
39	Burges Salmon	66	17	80%	£433k	£235k to £522k
40	Mills & Reeve	70	46	60%	£441k	£350k to £513k
41	Shoosmiths	42	141	23%	£429k	£230k to £504k
42	TLT	38	83	31%	£342k	£200k to £500k
43	Trowers & Hamlins	67	81	45%	£333k	£161k to £461k
44	Shakespeare Martineau	47	90	34%	£272k	£185k to £372k
45	Hill Dickinson	47	70	40%	£334k	£145k to £365k
46	Womble Bond Dickinson	64	55	54%	£266k	£165k to £357k
47	Weightmans	36	153	19%	£278k	£163k to £345k
48	BLM	56	124	31%	£213k	£153k to £292k