Beginning in the city’s 2015-16 fiscal year, high-performing junior attorneys in the Law Department may get to take home slightly larger paychecks after a reboot of the merit raise program for the department.

According to the department’s five-year spending plan released in February, $1.9 million would be allocated in the upcoming fiscal year to provide pay increases of up to $2,000 for attorneys who have been with the department from two to five years, subject to a performance evaluation that accounts for how well the attorneys are developing their lawyering skills.

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