2021 Guideline Hourly Rates - written by Shamas Alexander - 22/11/2021

London 1

London 2

London 3

National 1

National 2

Grade A

Solicitors and legal executives with over 8 years’ experience

£512.00

£373.00

£282.00

£261.00

£255.00

Grade B

Solicitors and legal executives with over 4 years’ experience

£348.00

£289.00

£232.00

£218.00

£218.00

Grade C

Other solicitors or legal executives and fee earners of equivalent experience

£270.00

£244.00

£185.00

£178.00

£177.00

Grade D

Trainee solicitors, paralegals and other fee earners

£186.00

£139.00

£129.00

£126.00

£126.00

Band

Area

Postcodes

London 1

(very heavy commercial and corporate work by centrally based London firms) - This is not restricted to any particular London postcode

London 2

City & Central London – other work

EC1-EC4, W1, WC1, WC2 and SW1

London 3

Outer London

All other London Boroughs,
plus Dartford & Gravesend

National 1

The counties of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Essex, Hampshire (& Isle of Wight), Kent, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, East Sussex, West Sussex, Suffolk, Surrey and Wiltshire.  Birkenhead, Birmingham Inner, Bristol, Cambridge City, Cardiff Inner, Leeds Inner (within 2km of City Art Gallery), Liverpool, Manchester Central, Newcastle City Centre (within 2m of St Nicholas Cathedral), Norwich City and Nottingham City.

National 2

All places not included in London 1-3 and National 1