I'm a senior & was offered an associate position at a small/midsized national consulting firm. I'm having a hard time with the fact that this wouldn't be a "lateral" move. Am I justified?

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Pay me considerably more and you can call me the 53rd floor janitor for all I care.

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You're overthinking it OP. Consulting has different ranks. Everyone in consulting typically has experience (new hires can't consult anyone since they don't know shit), so "associates" in consulting are typically people with 3-4 years experience. Plus the pay is above what you make now, which indicates it's a higher level position. Don't get caught up on titles here.

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If they have an analyst level it is a lateral move

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Justified as in is this a legitimate concern I should be having

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I thought consulting positions rank a little different than compliance or traditional assurance. Is the pay at associate level in consulting firm similar or better than senior pay at PwC?

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What kind of consulting is it?

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Yes they do have an analyst level

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Then associate is equivalent to senior level so it is a lateral move.

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It's easily explainable, and people in the know understand how consulting ranks work. Plus with the salary level, people will understand it's not a move backwards.

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Hahaha! Thanks, everyone, for talking some sense into me

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Consulting is quite different outside of big 4. You can have someone with 5-8 years experience with a title just "consultant"

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It's better than senior pay at PwC by a decent-ish margin. I probably just overthinking it by getting concerned that I might have to explain going from senior back to associate at some point in the future.

That's one of the hold ups for me about leaving before manager is a lot of the jobs seem to be like that. I think it depends if it's an associate position where they don't hire people with less than 3 or 4 years experience which would put you at the bottom of the totem pole but still distinguished from an entry level position out of college.

Mostly FAS-type consulting. And yes exactly...I know they don't do any campus recruiting/entry level hiring but it's hard to not feel like I'm taking a step backwards.

Especially given that you can move from audit senior to advisory senior within the b4

Is it an associate role where there's an analyst level

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