The following data has been gathered from LinkedIn's salaries portal, and has been filtered by the 'Management Consulting' function. Please note that every column of the tables below is sortable in ascending/descending order.
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Anyone familiar with the world of Management Consulting or our Recruitment Rankings will know that the 'MBB' firms, i.e. McKinsey, BCG and Bain are almost always right at the very top of the most sought-after firms to work with. Now we know why! These firms, which hire only the cream of India's talent pool (including MBA grads) are the best pay masters in the world of Consulting, at least in India.
Accenture, one of the top recruiters at b-schools across various tiers, pays its Consultants an eye watering median base salary of nearly ₹19.00 lakhs a year!
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Many of the world's top Management Consulting firms are headquartered in major US cities. Even in the US, Consultants are some of the highest paid professionals sitting in the high rises of Manhattan, Atlanta or Los Angeles. Consultants who are graduates of the world's top b-schools are especially well-paid, and can earn base salaries well beyond $150,000.
Once again, the MBB firms emerge as the best paymasters in the US, with the McKinsey office in the Greater Seattle area offering its Consultants a median base salary of a cool $161,000. That' ₹1.2 crores, and this doesn't even include bonuses and perks!
It's also no surprise that the top paying firms are all based out of the Big Apple - New York City! Did you know - the average Management Consultant in NYC earns a base salary of $105,000, and can earn up to $35,000 as annual bonus! You should definitely take a look at region-wise salaries for Consultants in the US.
The UK (or London specifically) is an exception to the dominance of the MBB firms as pay masters. Here, The Berkeley Partnership - an independent management consultancy based out of New York and London tops the chart of the top paying Consulting firm in the UK, offering its Management Consultants a whopping 110,000 GBP just as a median base salary. That's upwards of ₹1 crore a year!
Two of the three MBB firms do, however, feature amongst the top-3 Consulting paymasters in the UK, followed by the Chicago-based global consulting firm, AT Kearney.
So It's Clear: The Salaries Are Great - But Is A Consulting Career Really Worth It?
Based on the massive salaries that you just saw, Consulting definitely seems like a career that can make you rich. But, as with any career, there are other components that also need to be factored in. For instance, Management Consulting jobs are known to have very poor work life balance. Are you not comfortable with travelling a lot? Well, you may have to pass on Consulting as a career. There are many such components that are sometimes only known when you actually step into a career. But is it wise to get into a profession you don't know the reality about?
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