Legal Cheek’s 2027 Solicitor Apprenticeship Most List reports first-year starting salaries averaging about **£28,600** across data from more than 40 firms. The highest listed starting salary is **£33,000**, according to the publisher’s table.
The publisher’s repeat-firm comparison says 24 firms increased starting salaries and nine held steady. The list covers London and non-London employers, but a location is not given for every figure and the article does not provide a complete comparison denominator. Legal Cheek also discusses sign-on bonuses separately, so the stated figures should be read as first-year starting salary rather than total remuneration.
This is a useful, bounded early-career pay datapoint. It is not an independent salary survey, a weighted market average or a broader legal-pay benchmark. Any public use should retain the publisher attribution, the 40+ firm sample qualifier and the location limitation.