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It really all depends on your team(s). For some, busy season is 6 weeks and can be anywhere from 50-70 hours per week. For others, it can be 65-85 hours per week and potentially shorter/longer than 6 weeks. On average, a typical public 12/31 will be somewhere in that 60-70 range most weeks in my opinion. You can easily get put on two jobs though with different year ends and end up having multiple busy seasons (ie year end public audits or even a private company audit).
85-90 hours in AWM audit sadly. 😢
Probably a little high, but I can relate.
I’d say actual hours were 70-80 during busy season—which for my AWM clients meant rolling from one client deadline to the next for 4-6 months / year (longer than most industry busy seasons). Off busy season was still 45-50 hours, and more towards 50-55 during Q’s or special projects
The scary part was how predictable far in advance a 60+ hr week was. Always feels like that’s a solvable problem
In my experience (2 busy seasons) its only been 55 during busy season. I think the trick is to ask to work on big public clients so you only are assigned one at a time. Also productive time management. If you can be efficient with your time then you'll work less. Outside of busy season it's 40.
Let's see.. is 10 35pm... worked til 4:30am last night and started back at 7:30... and yeah... summer is chilled 😆😆😆
Because the firms dangle the partnership/high comp carrot.
Very dependent on your clients. At EY managers are expected to have about 1,750 client chargeable hours. With training and admin, vacation and holiday etc, works out to about 300 hours of overtime per year. Could be concentrated in busy season with 40-45 hours per week the rest of the year. Or you could have a short busy season and other spikes at other times during the year.
26 hours/day, 8 days/week
Man. Things have sure changed over the years. Glad big4 audit isn't quite as bad of a sweat shop as it used to be.