Is it common to get billed out at a higher level than you are? I'm an L1 at a boutique and am getting billed as L2 since July. I'm in the process for promo to L2 this January, but I would get that even if I didn't take this project. When I asked if I would be able get a higher comp adjustment on top of the promo, I was shot down because of "how the market is", but the additional comp I want isn't even 20% of the savings I brought the firm for being overbilled.

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Why would your billing rate be related to your pay? You earn as much as you can get in the labor market. Your firm’s billing rates don’t directly enter that calculation.

And FWIW, unless you’re on a T&M project the billing rate is an internal accounting fiction anyway.

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See D1’s answer below. You’ll be billed out at all kinds of rates, including free. You’ll expect to be paid for your work even when the firm is investing you to build a client relationship.

Your billing rate has less to do with your abilities and more to do with the ability of whoever sold the project. If you stay in consulting long enough, you will be billed out at rates all over the place including free.

Focus on your skills, both hard and soft.

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The only leverage you really have is the ability to leave and go make more somewhere else. Good luck!

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Ideally a project will be set up to bill by the role and not by level.

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