Many Officers coming out of the military have an expectation (especially academy grads) of making $120k+ first year out... would you say this is unrealistic?

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Assuming you’re talking about junior officers I’d call this generally unrealistic but not impossible with the right background and some luck

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Not unrealistic. Depends on their background. Very possible

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Not unrealistic and definitely doable. It all really boils down to how well one can present(sell) themselves to whoever is hiring. I know quite a few who managed to rock that much in their base salary (in both sales and ops roles) immediately after leaving mainly through programs like Breakline, Hiring our Heroes, Tech-Qualled, and Shift.

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This. Definitely realistic if you go into consulting, tech, sales, or into an ops management role through a military hiring program. I left as a junior officer and started with base at $120k (and I sold myself short I later learned). This was before the programs listed above were in full swing. For the record, do those programs, regardless of whether you’re coming out Officer or not.

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Sounds unrealistic to me. Control for officers that got sponsored to go do a masters before any military work and non-technical majors, and I think more realistic is 75-100k. Engineers will always make more out the gate but the engineering org is typically crowded and hard to advance in, good if you’re comfortable making 150-200k the rest of your life tho. I think for the vast majority its tough to justify $100k salary

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Overall, this question seems to exemplify the overemphasis on starting comp that can be a mistake for many coming out of the military. You join this industry for the comp trajectory, accelerated advancement and relatively high ceilings, not for the starting pay.

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100k is roughly GS-13 step 7 I believe. It’s not hard to go over that depending on your rank/skills.

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I left in 2016 and had a starting comp of 125k in an engineering manager role. I did not have an MBA. But a few years later, here I am consulting for PwC. As another 🐠 mentioned, engineers hit a ceiling and careers are too slow.

If I had a redo, I’d go from Army straight to an MBA program and forget trying to find a 6 fig job right out the gate.

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Realistic, especially for HCOL areas.

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Well within the capability of most officers. If you do some homework and move outside of govt contracting I would say 120 is average or below average.

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Damn just as strategy and management? Or a more technical role?

Definitely doable, I did this 5 years ago with no MBA, etc. Most of those that got out around the same time as I did also were in the 110-120k range.
I assume salaries have gone up a little bit since then so shouldn’t be hard to do with the right prep and effort.

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I think 115k - 120k is realistic. It depends if you have a secondary degree as well. Consulting that seems to be the going rate for most junior officers. I’ve seen folks with secondary degrees get more, but I think they are one offs. Agree though with P1. Salary and bonus will come with time.

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Depends on their field and negotiation skills. A companies goal is to hire low as possible.

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Possible but not the norm

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Realistic. Left the active duty at an O3 and went to Deloitte to make $123k. Other firms offered more but I wanted to come to Deloitte. Just started at a tech firm after 2 years at Deloitte making $180k. Honestly, your money goes much farther as active duty, especially if your residence was a no income tax state like mine was, so you need that much to break even.

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Like everything else, very much depends. I was a systems engineer, and had I punched to a major contractor as an engineering lead don't think this is way out of line (note that I had no idea what consulting was post-military until MBA, so wouldn't have had MBB aspirations at that point).

Possible, but not necessarily realistic. Multiple factors could make it more likely, include HCOL location. From a B4 consulting standpoint, that puts them in line with the upper end of senior consultant comp.

P1 I agree that non target MBA has little to no impact. I’m part of an initiative and I see all the new hires. Non target MBAs come in at consultant and maybe SC if they have significant work experience but def not at target mba SC pay

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