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A Big 4 Partner I'm friends with told me all partners in the partnership know who owns how many units, and their distribution. This was in after a front page article (accurate, insider leak) in the financial papers in my country re Big 4 Partner incomes.
My firm we know exactly where we stand on comp and equity and have a spreadsheet of all other partners globally. Cuts down on chicanery.
1500 people.
Definitely not equal but more justifiable (eg seniority, trailing revenue, in year revenue etc...)
Coach
Yes - more or less
Broadly, but we don’t disclose the list (like some law firms where every one knows to the $).
I worked at a B4 from 2013-2015. At the time, partner level staff knew what cohorts they were all in and how many standard units they had. For example, (if I remember the terminology correctly, it's been a long time since I saw the partner level comp deck) partner level folks in Cohort A would get X units per year, Cohort B would get X + Y units per year, and so on.
The cohorts the partner level folks were in was common knowledge to each other, so a Cohort A partner would know another was a Cohort C partner, and so on.
What a generic partner didn't have access to, on the other hand, was the specific unit breakdown per partner. You could be in Cohort B and get a base of X+Y units each year, which was partner-public knowledge, but you'd been killing it in sales so got an extra Z units the next year, and so on. My understanding is that only the managing partners knew the specific comp details for the partners under them.
At EY generally no you don't. Some partners obviously do but it's more like corporate than a partnership w transparency on what all other partners make.