My young cousin who got promoted from C to SC at IBM... Salary went from 70k to 98k lol.. Thats quite nice...

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IBM’s tradeoff is better promotion increases, but worse (non-existent) yearly increases/bonuses. It’s not uncommon for an UG hire to go from 75k to 150k in 3-4 years.

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IBM is what you make of it, there are a near infinite amount of opportunities if you take the initiative, but most people don’t. They also tend to be the most vocal group on this app.

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Yeah that’s almost double mine 😂😂😂

Which city?

Washington DC. Promotion was end of January (precovid I suppose)

Typical. I was at IBM back in 2014 starting was 72k promotion was to 97k. Considering the inflation I’d say they’re cheaping out ;)

Guidehouse used to be PwC public sector and so I switched firms. Was able to get a clearance and started working exclusively with one federal agency. Eventually my client approached with with a FTE position and I took it.

Your career salary will be much lower than commercial consulting, but there’s 0 travel and the work is basically staff aug. on the federal side as an FTE you can get up to 33% of the average top 5 years income as a pension after you put in somewhere between 20-30 years. Right now the top of the GS scale is at 168k and SES is at around 180-200.

For civil service there’s also incentives for getting certifications, which the government will pay for. For someone like me that doesn’t have any certifications, I can go out and get a PMP on the governments dime and I can get a 15% pay bonus for 3 years.

Not a bad bargain I’d say.

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