I recently got laid off from Gartner. Through my network I’ve been able to get in front of recruiters. With over 20 years of experience the salary these employers are providing is an insult. They want a senior resource but want to pay them consultant level salaries. There is a big salary reset going on. American is not for the middle class. American wants to make the middle class poor. The divide between the have and the have nots is getting bigger.

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Consultants make many multiples of what the average American makes. There are lots of Americans that would be happy with consultant level salaries. There are people all over the world that would be happy to make US consultant level salaries as evidenced by the work visa backlog. Maybe align your expectations with realities?

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I can deliver large engagements and act as the SME

You need to be more selective with the roles you're entertaining. Ask for the compensation package up front. On the initial screen, let them know your compensation expectations. If there's a misalignment, you only waste 15 minutes, not hours or weeks. Don't be shy, there's no room for that in the current market. They will either pay or they won't, find out ASAP and move on.

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This is probably mean spirited but recruiters are usually very low skill and low information. They aggressively pursue quotas and targets and one of them is just scheduling interviews and getting candidates to hiring managers. You've got to treat them as aggressively as they pursue you. If your time is valuable, and it is, tell them you're not interested in wasting it. If they don't reply to you or act like it's a problem, they weren't worth talking to in the first place... Especially for highly paid roles, any recruiter worth anything should read the room.

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This is what is going on every election cycle. I couldn’t agree more. If you complain about it, though you’re brandished as a socialist.

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what specifically elections have to do with the salary ranges?

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Gartner doesn’t command a premium- you know that right? But they don’t pay high either, so I’m surprised you are feeling this way.

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It’s not the Gartner compensation I have an issue with. In fact Gartner fees are comparable to the large consulting firms. As I mentioned ruined I’ve been laid off and after several weeks finally got an interview. The compensation for what they want me to do doesn’t align.

Companies can pay less because of cheap labor coming in through h1bs. Why pay you 200k when there are 10 Indians willing to do the work for 100k. It’s actually very simple.

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r > g
• r = average rate of return on capital (profits, dividends, rent, interest)
• g = growth rate of the economy (income + population growth)

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Piketty = proud of you

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Yes and what is produced is garbage and needs rework

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This. My firm just cut an entire office in India because the junk produced wasn’t worth the salary paid

Just so I’m clear here, companies are not paying what you want because there is a willful cabal that is keeping the middle class poor?

I think OP statement is pretty clear, try reading again pls

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Confused by “consultant level salaries” as a lesser than

All of variables by firms, practices and pre/post MBAs. Ex: Big 4 post MBA in strategy is 175K where as a T2 analyst in mgmt consulting from undergrad is 75K

what’s going on with gartner?

Layoffs

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