MBB after PhD at target

[Edit: bonuses below are for performance, not sign-on. These I don't have visibility on]

For the below, we're talking post-PhD, with no other (or very little, say 2 years) work experience on your CV. Also, if any BCGer or McK peeps can fact-check my figures for the UK, I'd appreciate it. I'm on 2022-2023 second-hand data, and keen to update.

UK

• MBB: 
  • Bain - AC - £52k base + ~£6k bonus (next level up is after 2 years, and is ~£69k base + £10k bonus)
  • BCG - SA - £75k base + ~£15k bonus
  • McK - JA - ~£90k + base + ~£10k bonus
  • Bain hires PhDs one level lower vs. others. Afterwards salary differences are also driven by the different setups within each firms (e.g., starting higher a McK, but having fewer levels with less of an increase over time - albeit often a faster one)
• Industry: 
  • Depends... you could make £35k, just like you could make £100k, depending on what your PhD was in (e.g., AI and machine learning and you now work for Amazon vs a PhD in English Literature and you now start at a Big 4 audit department)
  • Please please please, for the love of everything that is holy and taxable, do not start comparing yourself or anchoring on those absurd +350k figures some people make. You're not going to get hired in PE out of a PhD (certainly not in an investment role at a MF, where you'd be on >£220k with bonus in year 1), and Big Tech isn't exactly on its best year (i.e., 2020-2021 was when they made ridiculous offers to anyone who even breathed the words "data science" or "AI")
  • Only other professions I know of in the UK that'll get you near that kind of level by your 30s would be IB (after a few years), Big Law (after a few years too), or other high finance jobs (e.g., HF). Now if you have a mathematically oriented PhD and have an interest in Finance, you could always try your hand at some HF roles, but that is a tough industry to break in (very good money to be made obviously), with very very few spots

US

• MBB: 
  • Bain - Consultant - $192k base + $29k bonus
  • BCG - Consutant - $190k base + $24k bonus
  • McK - Associate - $192k base + $30k bonus
  • The US job market for advanced degree holders is more mature and standardised. For those, I'd recommend applying for the various advanced degree internships and work experience programmes available, usually doing well in those leads to return offers
  • Prep for these programmes is the same as for normal management consulting interviews
• Industry: 
  • Same as the UK for the qualitative commentary.
  • For salary figures, tougher to say, other people would be better placed to answer that bit