Director at $260k base. My niche is hot right now. Salary here is expected to rise 2-7% annually. I have a lot of autonomy and relative work/life balance here. Clients are pretty chill. Though I am disappointed by the talent and tech at BDO and do worry about the future. Got an offer from Big4 for $50k more / $30k signing but that comes with reestablishing reputation, more grind, and less autonomy, more competitive. Trying to balance greed and logic. Also don’t want to work to death. Thoughts?

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My opinion is that the WLB of public accounting firms on the whole makes it not worth staying at these places. That problem is usually worse in most groups of big 4. You say that you have autonomy and decent WLB at your current firm, so you’d be risking a lot by leaving when you already make good money there. I would stay

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Valid. All good points. I worry about being too “comfortable” while I’m still young. I spent most of my career at B4z

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Stay. Nothing beats work life balance. That raise you think you’re getting will even out to about the same or less than your current salary when you start calculating all the extra hours you’ll have to put in to get reestablished.

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And taxes!

Stay

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Interesting any other thoughts?

Grow - take it! Opportunity may not knock twice

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I would stay…personally the work life balance would outweigh the perks for me but it’s all about what matters to you personally

Same. Are you in a good area (i.e. other things to do besides work)? Are you single/married/have kids? Do you like fancy things (art, cars, etc.)? All things to consider for 80k bump in TC for this year. Is new B4 gig in same location?

WLB will change. Headwinds are strong. Advisory (which is supposed to be the growth engine) has done 2 RIFs in the last couple of months and fired the guy brought in to grow consulting. Tax and audit are getting crushed by AI and unlike the B4 who have AI offerings, BDO has none. Matt who will take over in a year is a nice guy, but not CEO material. Firm will break PE covenants in one of the next 3 or 4 quarters and then life will get really bad.

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