Are there boutiques that can match LEK pay + let me lead a team (2.5 YOE)? I’m reluctant to accept any offer paying less than $200K. Honestly wondering if the “rationale” thing to do is to stay at LEK long-term, but I also want to have a back-up / explore options. For context, I’m content with my current hours, feel like the job has gotten pretty easy (I’ve lost track of the models, surveys, expert calls I’ve done), and the Associates do most of the menial work.

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Leading a team after 2.5 years is gonna be a stretch

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Maybe we can pass on that part

I’d say there is about a zero percent chance a boutique consulting agency will pay 200k for 2.5 yoe

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It’s a minuscule proportion that pays like that. In order to pay salaries like that you need to pull in more than a million a head basically. That’s very tough to do without a huge brand that provides a steady stream of rfp’s

I feel like I’m at a cross-roads. Yes, this is still a 9 to 11pm sort of job, but in the last year, the job has gotten considerably easier. I feel like I’m using 10% of my brain capacity. I’m able to upwards manage much better now. The job isn’t very stressful. The pay, in my mind, is “good” but not “great.”

I can see a case for staying, but I also don’t know if this is really what I want to do for the rest of my life.

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Maybe if all you're doing is back to back CDDs

How many offers do you have ?

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Zero at the moment, but I’ve interviewed over the past few years and gotten 2 offers, which I declined: 1 for pay (start-up strategy role), the other for poor workplace culture + they couldn’t match LEK’s pay trajectory (even though year 1 pay was higher)

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*rational plz fix

There are boutiques that pay similarly but nobody will let you lead a team at 2.5 YOE AND pay you that well

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Yes but I think it’s a bit of a conflict to help you go to a competitor so unfortunately I need to decline to answer your question. Sorry homie.

Why are you focused on just boutiques? You can make more than that at MBB and be leading small teams of ~2-3 at that yoe

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What’s the pay like at LEK? Sheesh.

I’d say “good” but not “great”

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