Do small/mid level tax firms pay competitively with Big 4?

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It’s all over the place. Some have to overpay to attract talent.

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Be careful with the overpay language. They may to attract talent but their raises are historically smaller than Big 4 so may not be better long term, probably wont actually.

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More than Big4

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Is going to somewhat depend on level. As a senior my big 4 offers were 10-15% higher than offers I got from mid-size (I interviewed at a few top 25 firms in addition to 3 of the big 4).

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Typically it will be competitive if you’re in a major market, I’m in Chicago making 90k base as a second year senior for a mid-size regional firm. Although I would also say the WLB isn’t too different either, so if you’re looking at a really small firm that isn’t hitting normal busy season hours then maybe the pay is less at those places.

My experience has been that they pay their managers and below competitively. My experience working in tax with one mid level firm and the experiences of a couple friends at different mid level firms is that they tend to work their people as hard as Big 4.

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