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Utilization Rate

As a first year audit associate, does utilization percentage affect promotion or bonus?

20% utilization gang wya?

What is work like as a software engineer at a B4 firm? Is it project based or are some groups internal? Are you also expected to meet utilization goals or does it just depend on the group?

Has anyone utilized the eBay Authenticity Guarantee for a watch purchase? Care to share your experience? I normally wouldn’t spend such a large amount via eBay but there are some reasonable deals to be had.

My utilization went to 50 in IBM, I think I have taken paternal leave since it went down. My manager put my as PIP improvement goal in checkpoint.
Need to know how to bring this up and is that my job is under risk? Band 7b

Welcome everyone! I’m so happy this is being utilized. A little background on me, I got my Bachelor’s when I was 20 and immediately went into both Child & Adult Protection careers. I then worked as a crisis counselor and a behavioral health specialist, and now I’m 26 at Monroe Plan for Medical Care working on expanding our Health Home Program into a new county where I’m our only employee!! My goals are to grow financially so that I can give back to our underserved populations even more.

Hi Sharks,

I have recently joined Cognizant and was taken into project the very next day. However, The billability is heing shown as 'NO' in ESA Assignments. My Manager though is asking to select 'Yes' while applying Time sheet.
Is there is any way to find out overall utilization percent from joining ?
If I am not billed and being asked to work as non-billable should I be worried about layoffs,recession .
I won't be eligible for 22 rating and upcoming April hikes too as I have joined in Oct.

New to consulting… what counts as utilization? I’m on my first project tomorrow. I need to get as many hours as I can to go towards my utilization, but does it have to be client-related for all 8 hours (or more) per day?

I've never been on the bench and I hear people that go months without a project. Thoughts on purposefully not being billable till the new year? I have great utilization already and great performance reviews.

As a manager, how many deals are you on to start fully utilized?

For who ever is on the Bench, what is your utilization rate?

Does it make sense to go as AWS L6 Senior Solution Architect role from PwC Director with around 15% raise in total compensation? Would like to do tech stuff rather than worrying about sales number and utilization

I’ve been working in strategy consulting for a few months now. I’m on the bench for the first time since joining (aka a few days) and was wondering - at what point does being on the bench look bad? I’ve been working on business development and thought leadership projects in the meantime but I’m worried about my utilization metric.

I have a post-MBA offer from MBB in NYC. I am hearing from a lot of friends who just started that utilization is very low and ton of ppl are on the beach. On top of this, next year starting class be even bigger. Should I be concerned?

How is it to be a GCR tax manager in EY? Do you work on any provision prep and audit engagements? What is the utilization %, admin and other non billing responsibilities? I am interviewing for Southeast office and wanted to get some perspective of what to expect.

Hello, I am looking to make a career change that starts at a minimum 75K salary. The economy is tough right now and I can no longer afford to stay in my current role. I have a bachelors degree in Sociology with experience in managed care, utilization management, & clinical admin.. Does anyone have any suggestions for a possible higher paying career that I would be qualified for based on my background?

what should I do to make it at least 40 hrs/week? already reached out to a senior but still got nothing to do. i'm afraid it will impact my utilization.

What kind of utilization are folks/practices seeing across the firms?

Looking to change companies for growth opportunities. Any recommendations for WFH Utilization Review jobs for LPC? How does your company pay, benefits, management?

I joined EY a year ago as a senior and am very fed up with my group. I work on short-term projects with very scrutinized budgets, yet my utilization is supposed to be 100%, so my hours are scrutinized by the teams I work with and leadership. It feels like it's all they care about. Has anyone moved firms due to such reason?

Hello 🐟, I currently work in IAM but I've been unfulfilled mainly because I've been on the bench and my consulting muscles are not being utilized. I can't move because I'm early career and more experience is needed. So, as you can understand it's a rock and hard place to be. What is a good way to get out of this slump? I'm interested in cloud & thinking about a transition as well. But I feel like I'm losing relevancy & would appreciate advice to step up my game & land a new gig.

Joined Big4 consulting 11 months ago, was promoted to Senior last month, but feeling frustrated & underworked on a project I'm staffed FT since Aug. I'm an experienced hire at 27, so I want to be more active on engagements to be able to advance. Can't roll off as partner said there are no backfills & utilization targets to meet. I frequently ask project leads for more tasks but rarely receive any responses, so I occasionally reach out to my previous EM to work with them in a limited capacity.

What’s utilization? Saw it in the young consultants bowl… do some firms track that on a personal level? What do they use the metric for? Our profit sharing is based on firm utilization, but never heard of it being tracked on an individual level…

Is it a bad sign if your group is actively calling out low utilization at your level as a problem in the group?

Guidehouse, Booz Allen, and other federal consulting groups - What’s your utilization, managed / delivered revenue, and sales targets by level ?

What’s the utilization requirement for a Director?

Not enjoying my low utilization and would like to either switch internally or leave to another B4 as an A2. What is the best option? Not getting the experience I want and disappointed.

What were some challenges y’all faced this week?

I’ll start. Trying to get non local resources utilized. National Leadership thinks this is the answer to our problems but local leadership is hesitant.

Good excuses for having low utilization?

What is the base range for infosys consulting partner position ? They say they are very competitive with likes of IBM , Accenture consulting and have a 53.8% bonus over base . The other thing is partners have 30% billable utilization. Does this mean that partners in consulting do lot of delivery work ? Or its mostly Driving sales and delivery governance

I’m considering a switch from clinic physical therapist to utilization/clinical reviewer which is remote. The offer is quite a steep pay cut and I’m trying to determine if that’s normal. I expected a slight reduction in pay moving to a non-clinical role, but this is ~$23,000 less than my outpatient job. Can anyone speak to a typical pay cut to move into this type of role?

What should be the approximate inhand salary for 45LPA fixed, considering full utilization of 80C, NPS, Home Loan?

I’m a recent hire mid level staffed on a deal with a nasty partner (condescending, criticizes and micromanages) and a jr that does everything exactly how the partner likes it. It seems I’ve frustrated the partner enough where I’ve been relegated to the jr work while the jr does what I should be doing.

With other partners Im utilized correctly and I’ve done a good job. I’m actually happy the partner has done this as working with him is miserable. Just wanted to see what others think abt this

Hi can someone explain the difference between Utilization nurse and a concurrent review nurse?

What is good utilization for T2 place? I’m at 75%

Timesheets and utilization are the worst. Easily least favorite part of my job. Agree?