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At Deloitte, not at lower levels of your util goal is any higher than 86%. Training, bench, holiday, and PTO all affect utilization. Assuming you're billing 40 hours per week (and 100% util is based on 40 hours/week), your max util is 96% after 10 holidays are observed.
If you were to take the 5 weeks of PTO that I think is standard at Deloitte now (I left years ago, not sure what the standard is now) with no training or bench time, you'd be at 86.5% util assuming 100% util while you're billing.
In GPS, at least, it's project dependent--at least while I was there prior to 2015, most projects were capped at 40, with higher capped and uncapped projects being the exception to the rule, not the norm.
PwC UK - PTO doesn’t hurt your utilisation.
It reduces “available hours”, so if you are 95% chargeable for all non-PTO days, then it doesn’t matter whether you take 10 vacation days, or the whole 25/30.
You also can’t “roll over” utilisation- there’s no difference between billing 8 hours per day and billing 12 (both equal 100%) so you can’t have more than 100% utilisation.
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At Deloitte, pto hurts utilization
It’s factored into the calculation.....people that care about this annoy me the same way people who don’t understand the difference between marginal and effective tax rates
Yes. I always take almost all my PTOs and my utilization is above 100%. I usually carry over a week or so but I am in Advisory though where PTO does not affect your utilization.
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PTO won’t affect your utilization
PwC is any paid time counts toward your "available hours" if you take paid vacation it will hurt your utilization.
If you take unpaid time off, obviously it won't hurt your utilization but essentially utilization = billable hours / (standard hours per week for any paid time).
Actually i heard PTO affects utilization in kpmg. Not sure if that statement is absolutely true but that’s the word i heard from a senior
At KPMG PTO counts for adjusted utilization (bench time doesn’t), I’ve had no issue taking all my PTO
Yes at D but only if you have close to 0 bench time/training/anything that prevents you from doing client work and you bill a little over 100% utilization per week that you do work. The problem is that hitting all of those other things is pretty hard.
What about PWC?
It doesn’t hurt utilisation for PwC UK.
I've almost always used all my PTO except for last year, where I probably lost about 5 days. It's definitely possible - but probably depends on how easy it is for you to get utilization when you're not on PTO