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Career Resources
Career Advancement Opportunities
June 2026 Consulting
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Boston Consulting Group 99.5%
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Bain & Company 98.9%
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McKinsey and Co 98.4%
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Oliver Wyman 97.9%
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LEK Consulting 97.4%
Overall Employee Satisfaction
June 2026 Consulting
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Cornerstone Research 99.5%
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Bain & Company 98.9%
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Boston Consulting Group 98.4%
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McKinsey and Co 97.9%
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Oliver Wyman 97.4%
Professional Growth Opportunities
June 2026 Consulting
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Bain & Company 99.5%
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Boston Consulting Group 98.9%
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McKinsey and Co 98.4%
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Oliver Wyman 97.9%
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LEK Consulting 97.4%
Total Avg Compensation
June 2026 Consulting
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Partner (4) $361
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Principal (30) $294
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Director/MD (58) $274
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Vice President (53) $247
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Engagement Manager (113) $232
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Manager (170) $173
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2nd Year Associate (185) $142
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3rd+ Year Associate (116) $135
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Senior Consultant (354) $132
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Consultant (642) $122
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1st Year Associate (577) $121
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3rd+ Year Analyst (164) $121
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NA (16) $114
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Engineer (6) $114
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2nd Year Analyst (390) $104
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Associate Consultant (176) $101
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1st Year Analyst (1163) $90
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Intern/Summer Associate (208) $83
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Intern/Summer Analyst (632) $68
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From 10 rejections to 1 dream investment banking internship
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It is a very niche field. If you can get in, it's okay. I know someone who did that for a few years at Mercer. He moved onto a pretty big bank completing the bank's internal compensation needs. Naturally, you will leave and go in-house at a big company researching compensation trends, manage stock incentive/comp plans, maintaining comp database, possibly coordinate the preparation of aspects of certain SEC filings like the proxy statement.
I would advise you to try to leverage the experience by moving onto a bigger consulting firm like McKinsey and dealing with general matters. If you can't it's a pretty limited field. Head of HR would be the highest role I can imagine. Not sure how much this last piece of advice is worth. You'd need someone from the Big 3 to comment about how realistic the transition would be.
Equilar isn't an exec comp consulting firm per say, they're more of an aggregator and surveyor of executive compensation data that consulting firms and the media will go to. I can't really speak much about a career path starting from Equilar.
Exec comp consulting on the other hand is a really niche area dominated by a few smaller companies. Mercer is known more for the HR consulting in general rather than exec comp consulting. If you look on the Def 14A or proxy statements of almost any public company, you'll find the consultant that they use.
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