Trends of total seats by year

Given recruiting for 2025 associate roles is 90%+ wrapped at this point, was wondering about the number of seats for this class vs 2026 vs classes prior.

Does anyone have any insight they might have gleaned from HHs? Or historical data ppl have put together via LinkedIn?

Since I’m interested in UMM / MF seats, I also figured we could get a good sense through anecdotal evidence by firm. 

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