Bain salary negotiation: just received an offer from Bain as an experienced Consultant (18 months post-MBA). Can I negotiate base salary? Technically I’m an industry/experience hire but the offer seemed more firm, similar to a standard MBA salary offer. Any thoughts on whether this is a good/bad idea? For reference, I’d be taking a 5% cut in base to join.

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I’m not at Bain but what I see is difficult to negotiate base in strat - unless you get extra tenure credit which you may not want because it will add a lot of pressure. That said, they may have wiggle on signing Id push on that lever instead of base.

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Oooh good point. May be better to negotiate on that aspect

If you're a C1, you'll make C1 salary and bonus. You might be able to come in as a C2, though that means less time to ramp up before the promo window. If there's any flexibility, it will be in sign-on bonus and/or relocation

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Within MBB as a lateral you can negotiate role or tenure but not salary or bonus. For any given geography, the salary is fixed to role and tenure: every first year project manager makes the same salary, and has the same bonus eligibility “grid” (with bonus tied to performance). But for laterals there is absolutely room to negotiate role / tenure (for MBA there is none)

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does bain negotiate for tech roles? i'm PhD, joining in data science team with 7 years experience, and role i'm getting is 3+ years eligible candidates one

We definitely don't negotiate MBA offers; I don't get much that we should negotiate yours. If you're good enough you'll get a better bonus!

Right. If I was a true MBA hire I wouldn’t be thinking about negotiation. But technically I’m an experience hire with an MBA. I’m contemplating whether it is worth negotiating for a bit more

Following. What’s an effective argument for negotiating a higher signing bonus as an experienced hire?

How long after final did you hear back?

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