LEK pays college grads $120K, consultants (3 YOE OR MBAs) $250K, and EMs (5 YOE) $350K. That's not an upside: that's assuming low bonuses. Multiple times a week there's posts bashing us for our "WLB." All I say is: "whatever!"

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they do not pay new college grads 120k lol

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Lol OP made an elaborate attempt to justify the 120k claim and still didn't get to target. Typical consultant, inflating everything

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Super safe to assume low bonuses at LEK - you can count on it

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Are they giving you all extra time for bathroom breaks if you post good things on fishbowl to counteract the bad posts?

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Have you been dismissed yet?

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I think no one has shown receipts for these LEK TC. All we’ve seen is actual LEK people saying that they haven’t gotten a bonus in 3 years.

Are you an HRBP?

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Wait.....engagement manager works for LEK? This explains so much

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Good point

I understand that LEK requires staff to dismiss criticism by saying “whatever” so, well done 🏅

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lol, come join A&M instead. Those are rookie numbers

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A&M is definitely the highest paying out there right now. Uncapped bonuses is the way this whole industry should work

These are exaggerated but even so

If you get a chill job at a big 4 or industry and just uber on the side for like 2-5 hrs a day you'd come on top...and you wouldn't even have to get dismissed plus you could also get 8+ hrs of sleep 😂 😂 😂

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I’m in big4 and can tell you it’s pretty chill compared to labor intensive jobs.

If you are trying to sell your pay as worth the BS🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 because that is typical consulting pay at top firms.

Can you just share the base for all those levels

Leme get a referral

Wow, finally a post that’s positive about LEK.

It’s clearly coerced

Yea I’d live there for that.

I assume those numbers or inflated but can someone give a rough swag at what the real numbers are for base? I keep seeing all kinds of numbers for a Sr person at big firms but some seem very high. I have 12 years of cloud consulting but never in big firms, so I have always wondered what is the real base would be for a typical big firm with good experience.

Real base numbers are mostly accurate on Glassdoor or managementconsulted website. People in fishbowl like to throw around bonus numbers which is great when the multiplier is 1x or 2x. The last several years were below 1 and for some firms 0.

Well. They don't make the top 10 in the Management Consultant Report for 2025

The original point as I took it, was to indicate their pay was better than all the companies that had better WLB, so the pay made it worth it. And my point was they don't make the top 10 in comp.

If you were making real bonuses you wouldn’t be asking about base salaries lol

Come to FAANG and join the $500k+ club in your late 20s.

Principal product manager. Spent 5 years in tech consulting at B4. Then 4.5 years in product management at Amazon before the promo.

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