About to enter my third year as a senior, fourth year with PwC, lower cost of living but only making 73k. I’ve been a top rated employee every year with the firm, and I am feeling massively underpaid. Hoping to get a raise that puts me in the mid to high 80s. Is that crazy or reasonable?

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I’m in my third year as a senior in tax and make high 80s.. maybe time for you to bounce to another big 4

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I’d say mcol. SALT

Reasonable. Expect 20-30% raise when you go into industry.

Reality of the world: PWC won't give you an outside the normal timeframe raise just because you asked nicely and are a top performer without a competing offer or a real business case,and you don't have one of those as a senior. You'd be better suited going to another firm and either leaving or leveraging that offer into a raise (lots of warnings about this, most people say you are better off just leaving)

This is true everywhere, industry, public, big 4, small firms. Sorry.

You can ask,they will be nice about it and will look into it, but the answer won't be "we agree you're massively underpaid here's a nice raise"

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Went from 70k to 110k as a 2nd year senior going into industry. Definitely expect a nice bump.

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