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Big 4 hours without the name recognition. That’s the CLA Promise™️.
Got it. Thank you.
I didn’t work there, but I knew a few that have and they have all left. This was for different offices too. The main thing with CLA is that they bought a lot of firms over the years, so the culture varies a lot between the offices.
Salary doesn’t get below market until you get into the higher ranks from what I’ve been told. Associates and seniors should be about market rate. I make $70k as a 1st yr associate, which is about what I see other firms in the area advertising.
The highest billable requirement I’ve seen for tax is 60. Not sure if that’s usual or not. During busy season 55 was common and expected.
It’s not a bad firm, but I suppose it depends on what other offers you have. The only thing that I don’t like is it’s not easy to switch industries, or I should say it’s not as easy as some other firms I know of.
I worked at CLA, tough work environment. Mandatory 45 hour work week. 1800 billable hours for Senior.
Salary is below market. 1800 billable plus you need to do admin on top of it (SOWs, AR Collections, and billing). You have to make your monthly budgets or they’ll cut you. Yes you have to work more than 55 Hours near extension deadline.
They have flexible PTO but has to be approved by manager and can be denied.
CLA is moving away from Hybrid.
1800 billable hours for seniors is nuts. My firm is at 1650 for seniors
I applied at CLA last year. They lowballed me on the offer vs other offers I received. One of the managers who interviewed me later asked where I was and if we were looking for managers…so yeah, no.