MBB folks, how many hours do y'all typically clock in a work week? Weekend hours? (If any)

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Going to be highly variable depending on level. I’m an ASC (post-MBA/advanced degree level) and pull on average 60-75 in a week. I protect my weekends heavily - haven’t done any weekend work during my time here except to check and schedule a few emails Sunday night. I also travel on Sunday nights though (personal preference)

I don’t know a single EM that doesn’t at least do some work on the weekends

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The short answer is it depends both week to week and person to person, and I bet you’ll see a ton of variance in the replies here. FWIW, my average week is probably something like 8-8/9 M-T with some pretty decent breaks mixed in and then maybe ~6 hours of actual work on Friday. There are weeks it’s meaningfully heavier, there are weeks it’s meaningfully lighter, but I’ve only ever done 3 hours of real weekend work in 2 years and it was 100% my choice.

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I don’t work MBB but I work 35 hours

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Not sure why, but I literally laughed out loud on this one. Gotta love Data Scientist!

Have been doing 50 recently

What office

55/60, 60-70 when there are steercos

I try to do 9 to 9 or 10 every day and clock out 6:30 on fridays

50-55, no weekend work.

55-60. No weekend work so far, and BCG is good about giving extra purple days if you do need to work weekends

Average 55-60, no weekend. When there are SteerCos, 60-70 with no weekend.

When cases burn hot we get some gaps between staffing so had a week as my last case burned very hot (80+).

Depends on the project. I’ve averaged anywhere from 65-90 hours a week. Bleeding into weekends.

Low 50, highest I’ve ever done is 93 (including one fun night leaving client site at 3am). I’ve done weekends to make my weekdays less crazy and have time to do work without the daytime pressure of meetings and nighttime pressure of being tired.

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