Compensation in Consulting

Imagine your salary gets slashed to $1,500 a week. Can you live off that?

Can anyone from PwC tell me the salary range for a manager position in tech consulting? Would potentially be coming in as an experienced hire with 8 yrs of consulting experience.

🤔Besides salary, what's the most important benefit in your compensation package that you care about?

To those that have moved from HCOL to LCOL areas with comfortable salaries, is there a lot of times where you wish that you had not made the change to take advantage of the benefits of higher cost of ...

Do you think AI companies owe us a stake in their business? It's an interesting point. AI is built off of all of us; we should share in the profits. Especially since AI is going to take our jobs and/o...

I make $172,000 a year and still feel almost broke at times. I live in San Francisco and have three kids. The cost of living and raising a family on a single income is tough, even if that one income s...

I just learned a hard lesson. I went through three rounds of interviews and a case interview, only to be offered a role with a salary of $62,000. What a waste of time!

What has been the most amount of time that you have taken off and gotten approved? Looking to go on a 20 work day trip in 6 months and although my company says it is flexible PTO, I doubt I can take a...

To those that travel a lot for work, how much of it is actually done in person vs remote? I am looking at changing from full remote to traveling 40% of the time for no difference in pay doing the same...

My director is not an approachable guy, and I get nervous when I have to meet with him one on one. But it is time for a raise. How do I hype myself up for this meeting? I don't want my director to rea...

What has been your best piece of advice to give to new consultants entering the field? As of now I do not have much to give besides keep grinding and you will succeed or just do not go into consulting...

How has your salary impacted romantic relationships for you? Currently making less than my partner 5 years into my career while doing similar work and have become fearful that we are losing time toget...

What has been the hardest thing you have done in order to secure a raise? For me it was having the work 6 12 hour days a week and work at 150% capacity for 2 months. Ended up getting sick but the 15% ...

Which do you prefer, a lower salary with unlimited bonus potential or a high salary but almost no bonus potential?

To those that have a job with a sabbatical incentive after a certain amount of time, how long is too long to work for one and how does it affect you after you take it? I have heard that most people en...

For those that do side hustles… How? I have been trying to get into photography but the amount of work that I end up getting throughout the week makes it almost impossible. Is this common for a lot of...

McKinsey Peeps, do you have any insights? I don't want to pay for the article lol.

Has anyone received their bonus yet? I have just received mine and received 5k out of a potential 15k which was better than what I was expecting unfortunately in financial services consulting with a 2...

Good morning, I have two very important questions for you all. Firstly, who here works for a company that offers a compensation package of over $200,000? Secondly, for those of you who do, is your com...

Is it possible to climb to a $300k salary with just a bachelor's degree? All the partners I know have advanced degrees but I hated school and don't want to go back if I don't have to.