Interviewed for a Consultant role that paid 53k and another for 55k (mind you, this last one involved 4 rounds, including a long and complex econ based case study). Is this normal for DC? I’m not used to the market and absolutely shocked. Coming in from a T2 city and making almost double with 1.5 YOE.

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What firm? In today’s market, this is crazy low! What is your background? A rule of thumb for switching jobs (usually): current salary + 20%.

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This is more like the entry level offers I saw in this area at places like CGI/CSC/ACN in...2006.

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For policy work it isn’t crazy at all because entry level policy jobs are like paid internships with how many people come to DC looking to get into policy. I would never myself but have friends (with masters) that have. Personally can’t believe people choose these roles though.

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Don’t get me wrong, $55k is low. Separately, to your last question…at face value I’d pay someone minimally more with 1 YoE as someone fresh out of college fwiw.

Non-tech and no clearance? It sounds low but not asinine. If you are private sector that is an awful offer. You can find more competitive offers without much struggle.

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Oh helllll nah

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Why did you take the interviews if the comp was so low? But I’ve actually never heard of a consultant salary being that low in DC (I’m at $150k in DC as a C)

Yeah I think C was their analyst/senior analyst equivalent when compared to ACN

It’s probably fed firms? They tend to pay a lot less

For context: not a fed firm, for profit, work for both of them was in the policy/market intelligence space. One of them even listed an MA as preferred, LOL

“It depends”

There are salaries all over the board. I can see some places giving that much for entry level. It makes sense

BUT if you’re going with a big 4 MBb I’d expect way more. At D, that’s entry analyst wages 5 years ago

Why would you move to a higher COL area at half the pay?

I never said I would lol I was just shocked at the offer

Is this for an 8(a) small business?

Nope! An LLC with ~120 FTE

Wow, reject move on!

Extremely low, first year teachers make more

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