Compensation in Consulting

What was your most insulting job offer? Because I bet I'm going to beat it. I had a firm reach out to try to poach me from my current job that pays $109,500 a year. I went to the interviews because I ...

I wanted to get your thoughts on this debate my colleagues and I had this morning. Do you think it would be better to retire at age 35 with $2 million in the bank or retire in your late 50s or early 6...

I received my first large bonus, $12,480. I'm excited, and hope more of these checks are to come. I'm not sure what to do with this money. How do you guys spend your bonuses?

How important has it been to make friendships in consulting? Recently had a “friend” that I had made in consulting years ago take some information to back stab me. Apologies for ranting but I guess I’...

What is the minimum amount of days off that you would need to take a role up? I am being offered 250k a year in cloud consulting but they are only providing 8 days off a year. I know this is a pair of...

Executive Director at JPMC total compensation?

How much money, or actually, net worth, do you think you need to be wealthy? My net worth is almost $3.3 mil. Which should make me wealthy; however, that's not really a lot of money these days.

I am looking to potentially join a firm that is mainly a family operation. Is this a big red flag or is it usually not? It seems like I would be working for the youngest one which has a bit of experie...

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...

MD's in tech consulting at EY. How much do yall make?

They're saying you have to earn at least $100,000 to be considered middle class now. Then how much do you think you need to earn to be upper class? I always thought $250,000 would do it.

I was told I earn too much for a cost of living raise. However, the cost of living keeps increasing, so our salaries aren't going as far as they used to. Thus, shouldn't our salaries increase with pri...

What does an MD at EY make?

Do you feel like salaries are going to drag downward with AI for actual human work? In the last year I have seen record breaking profits at my firm with lower than usual raises and it just feels disap...

With your salary do you buy or lease a car? Trying to figure out a good car to commute 20 miles to the office and back during the week and it seems like leasing might be better for the long term. Hopi...

KPMG is removing summer work hours. Is this an indicator of the industry being in a really bad position or just their firm in need of some help? Am applying to a senior manager role over there but am ...

To those that have holidays preset by countries, would you prefer that you get floating days off that you can have on other days or stick with the holidays themselves? We get Friday off for the 4th of...

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...

How do you deal with burnout at work and using that to find a new role that is better? Have been pushing 55 hour weeks and I cannot stand it but do not have the push to find something new. How have yo...

To those that work in remote positions, do you take the freedom of it to move around to different places or stay in one spot? I recently started a new job fully remote making 81k per year with the ide...