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From what I can gather, you will not have a comfortable living with b4 in SF until about senior manager. But also heard, at least EY, they had significant COL adjustments so my info could be dated. So to answer your question, no, but probably not going to see much better elsewhere.
Depends what your definition of "comfortably" is. A nice studio in SF will cost you around $3K. Can likely find something that's not as nice in the $2,500 range. Considering $100K is about $5,200 take home after taxes, that's about 50%-60% of your salary on rent alone.
Are you a first year or second year senior?
Also what service line?
Use on online paycheck calculator. ADP has one for free
@EY1 I lived comfortably in Bay Area on manager salary
First year senior. I am looking at places in Oakland, Haywood and areas around there and not finding any decent place for $1100-1300. I have offer from austin and Houston for senior position too. I can't decide where to go
I've heard very good things about Austin. Also no state tax! Just due to COL, $77K in Austin is likely similar to $100K in Bay Area.
In Austin, it's a small firm but they start up for all tech and software companies, IPO and sox testing. Do you think working there a year or so as senior, it will be easier to transfer over to big 4 or they prefer national or regional firm? I have an offer from pwc San Jose office for experienced associate but I am looking into declining it.
Are you a newly promoted senior at BDO? In general I agree with you on PwC. You don't want to take a title demotion and you also don't want to go into a new firm during a promotion year. Both things work against you there.
I got laid off from BDO right when I was about to be promoted.
The situation in Austin could be your best bet. If the firm is interesting I'd go that route. After a year or two of doing SOX and IPO work for tech companies you'd likely have no issue transferring into B4.
Yeah the firm is interesting, very homey feeling and flexible and I will be able to focus on getting my CPA. What firm do you work for?
Consulting firm focused primarily on the startup industry. We do work similar to accounting advisory in B4. Tech accounting, IPO readiness, audit support, etc....
I think that salary is avg for the Bay for your mid-sized firm. I would go big 4 and step down for lower expectations unless they pay you less than your current salary. At this point, is name or salary more important to you? You have to answer that yourself