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I’m literally doing this right now. Moving form US to UK. It makes no sense, are you doing a rotation or fully transferring. If a rotation, it’s worth it for the experience. If fully transferring, that’s a bit more difficult
Doing the same thing now. Offer is lower but moving forward with the move
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I did it a few months back, primarily because UK is better for immigrants than US. While I took a 35% cut of my salary, my dependent being able to work more than makes it up. A very situational take, not quite if it applies for you.
Did it a few months ago and absolutely loving it here so far. Given I am in my 20's, I wanted to travel more, experience different cultures and work in a new country. The extra holidays we get here, relaxed work culture, more focus on work life balance made it worth it for me. I took a 30% paycut and saw it more as an opportunity cost. We'll always make more money in future but an opportunity like this doesn't come around often.
Having said all this, I didn't have a lot of responsibilities and a wife/kids to lookout for so was a much easier decision for me.
I knew I would regret not doing this in future so went for it.
Hope this helps.
They didn't given it was a personal request more than a business need.
^ would be curious to how the process is going since you’re both already committed it sounds like! I.e. relocation/apartment hunting/etc
Doing the same right now, ~10% salary cut. My partner and I have both been there before for multi month periods and liked it. We have friends from the US who live there now too. Visas, relocation, and house hunting in process. It’s got to be something you want to do, money isn’t everything to everyone. If it’s about the money, better to stay in the US.
haha my US to UK salary cut is more like 45%, 10% it would be a no brainer
Biggest mistake of my life did it with D back in 2016
I’m sure everyone’s experience will be a bit different. I struggled with the cultural differences between the US and UK offices and overall approach to client work. Pay cut didn’t make the bad taste in my mouth any better. I found it very strange how different groups within Deloitte were all competing with each other for roles… and everything was more about “bums on seats” in the UK. US was more about quality consulting services, not sleepy car salesmen. Expense policy sucks. When UK people go to USI, they have to ask their US friends to pay for dinner and pay for their laundry, but if a joke. Very rare for different service lines to cross pollinate on engagements. In the US we would regularly staff projects with on the bench Audit and Tax people, if you suggest that in the UK they will look at you like you just suggested hiring EY. They are very big into tittle here, which can be a bit annoying.
US has a work culture. UK has a relax culture which work helps pay for.
I won't prefer UK in my 20s, 30s. In my 40s it's heaven.