Hi guys. I’m looking for advice on comp and career moves. Anticipating a promo at my current firm (a top ten accounting firm) to Senior Associate. I work in a specialty group in tax and making around 115k. I have offers for senior roles at a few big 4 and other top ten firms and law firms as well. Is a 125k offer in HCOL for a senior associate with a jd (soon to have my LLM complete) reasonable in big4? Should I be looking to move to M/A? Or even go to a law firm? Appreciate any feedback.

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M&A? MCOL SA should be anywhere from $135-180k. Since you’d be coming in as a new senior, I’d except to you to be closer to the $135k. 125k is maybe a bit low, but seems reasonable given you’re not currently a SA and you’re also not at big4.

Edit: my bad. Just realized you’re not in M&A. The above info is M&A only

No problem but still good to know. I wish I could go M/A easily without losing a promo

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