Do consultants rack up a lot of credit card points?

During a traditional project you'd travel every week M-Th, which usually means 2x flights, 3x nights in hotels, 4x days of meals, and Uber/cabs paid for. In terms of how this translates to financial impact:

• When you fly or stay in hotels you get loyalty points and status. This is a great benefit because you can get free/cheaper flights/hotels on personal travel and/or free upgrades
• When it comes to credit card points in particular, it depends on the firm. At some firms you use your personal CC and reimburse, at others you use a company card (sometimes you have the option to get points for these, sometimes not). Let's say we spend an average of $100/day on food/cabs, $300/night on hotel, and $700 round trip on flights (plug #s not benchmarks) -- that'd add up to $2300 in a week of travel. Let's say we got 2% back on that -- that's $46/week. If we did that 40 times a year that's $1840, which isn't nothing
• In addition to the points themselves, you have the additional benefit of avoiding spending your own money on food and travel to/from the office. Let's say you're working long hours and didn't meal prep / don't want to walk somewhere to get food, so you decide to purchase a $40 Doordash order for dinner. At home you'd pay $40 of your own post-tax money, so every meal you get to expense is sort of equivalent to a $60 pre-tax raise (if you assumed 33% tax rate). If you're in a tiny apartment somewhere like NYC it's not uncommon to get takeout or delivery for both lunch and dinner, which can add up to a tremendous annual cost -- avoiding this is probably the biggest benefit to travel (note - can also be avoided through more responsible choices for dinner)
• Also worth noting that at most firms you can choose to go somewhere else for the weekend instead of back home ("alt travel / alternative travel" or similar policy names). This means you can fly to see your buddies for free

All-in, the financial benefits of travel are significant, especially at the more junior levels. However the frequency of travel is not as consistent as it used to be (there's a million threads asking if travel is back to normal, please look for them before asking here)

In terms of having time to enjoy those benefits, there's a lot of existing posts on WLB in consulting. If you want to know how many hours consultants work in a week find the r/consulting survey. But on a high level I'd say you should have protected weekends and a decent number of vacation weeks in a year (unlike banking you usually end up using them in consulting), so plenty of time to blow through your money on fun stuff