NJ Firms First-Year Salaries

Where do New Jersey firms fit in the first-year associate salary increase race? In what follows are some of the highlights:
Latham & Watkins (Newark) and Drinker Biddle (Florham Park) top things out at $145,000. Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll (Voorhees); Flaster/Greenberg (Cherry Hill); and Proskauer Rose (Newark) are competitive at $130,000. Starting salary at McCarter & English (Newark); Lowenstein Sandler (Roseland); Gibbons (Newark); Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross (Newark); and Fox Rothschild (Princeton and Atlantic City) is $125,000.
Source: www.nylawyer.com