For those of you who left big 4 for industry - I’m seeing a lot of people saying they got 30% + raises when leaving. How did you find these jobs willing to pay that much more? Looking to leave at the M1 level and having trouble finding anything with much more than a 10-15% increase in base comp. from my current salary. Would it be dumb to leave for that low of a percentage increase? Some are offering equity in addition to the base comp. but hard to put a specific value to that now.

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The increase contemplates total comp (salary + bonus + benefits) not just base. Equity is where people get the biggest gains.

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Agree - bonus is typically much larger too. 20% or more in most industry roles at manager and above.

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Move from b4 audit to another b4 advisory. Your raise could be 50/60%+

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The other thing to remember, at least in my case, is you get a huge bump and better bonus, but you lose out on salary increases. For example, I got a 45% pay increase going to industry when I left EY. But in the corporate world I’m only getting like 3% raises unless I’m promoted.

So EY would have been better long term potential of earnings I.e. PPMD, but I couldn’t stomach the work life balance cost. So I’m perfectly content with the trade off

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I wouldn't overthink the %s because some of these big % increases are really just driven by a below-market denominator (previous compensation).

Fair point, though I wouldn’t say my current pay is above market by any means (actually felt low compared to what others were saying they got after raises this year).

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