Hi, I have heard that the staff to partner ratio for the consulting divisions of the big 4 is a bit above 14. Does anybody have an idea what this ratio is for the MBB? From the number of MBB partners on LinkedIn linked to even the smallest offices, I get the feeling that this number is lower. Can anybody confirm this?
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Well for big 4, I haven't seen 1:15 here, but maybe other offices.
My office is 1:8, and the other office I'm familiar with (large national hub) is closer to 1:10 for what we do (operations, human capital, IT Strategy). SAP has higher ratios of partner to staff I think, although they have been reducing that over time it seems.
Most projects I've been on are 2-8 staff with usually 1 partner directly reviewing the work and 1 partner as a second reviewer. Normally one is a subject matter expert and the other an industry expert, but sometimes they overlap.
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At my firm it's (according to 5 seconds of research by counting names in the online directory) almost exactly 1:8 (13%). That's (# of partners):(# of non-partner consulting track staff) i.e. it excludes topic experts, senior advisors etc. who are also arguably fee-earning staff.
1:15 ratio sounds about right. For more profitable teams (e.g. typically large project sizes such as in advisory), then you might have a better ratio.
Depends on which Big Four firm you look at, business line etc. Big Four firms in the US are running about 1:11 to 1:15 and McKinsey is running about 1:12.
I doubt any of the MBB are 1:12, @DeloitteSandO
as of 30 seconds ago, the MBB firm I work at is 1:7.4.
This is across the globe in total.
This DOES include experts and anyone else who bills directly to the client.
This does NOT include support staff.
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