Compensation in Consulting

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

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?

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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 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% ...

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.

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...

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...

What does an MD at EY make?