Here’s a chart of average earnings across 23 cities for people with 0-10 years of experience

All user submissions from Big 4 Transparency over the last 9 months or so

Interesting to see some fresh grads averaging higher than people with 1 year of experience in some cities

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What’s wrong with 5yr NYC

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Oh posted an updated version shortly after btw, this one had some outliers that i missed removing

I’ll repost an updated version that’s more cleaned up

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LA seems wrong for new hires

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There are variables though. A LLM is going to come in making more than a CPA, as an example for tax. In order to really compare, the data would need to be apples to apples.

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Yep, important factors

I think next time I’ll pick a very small focus area and just bore over the data in a ton of detail

I can speak to Charlotte atleast — it seems to track, but year 4 looks wacky. Might need to dig a little deeper? Break tax & audit apart

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rather meaningless as there is no breakout by LOS

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Good to know, this is the feedback I need

Thanks yall! Posting an UPDATED VERSION where I cleaned up some of the obviously problematic data

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Yeah there’s a handful of anomalies I should have looked into deeper. Some weird years and city jumps.

I expected there to be fluctuations just based on response answers, but probably some weird entries in here

Prob best used directionally

Are you sure the London figures are in dollars?

Indicated in local currency, so for London its in pounds, Canada its $CAD

Alright so key takeaways so far:

I should just focus on smaller more precise segments and just spend longer cleaning the data.

Split out by service line for it to be more valuable

Thank you so much, much appreciated 😊

Earnings meaning salary + bonus or just base salary?

Gracias!

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OP, you should change your name to Big4 Pay Hero. You’re a FB hero, a legend in the making.

Haha much appreciated! 🙌🏻

How is this right? LA fresh hires are earning more than someone with 2/3 years of experience?

Where is the update? Please post it here

Thanks for putting this together.

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