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Your hours look quite light for public accounting. I’m at a regional, and thought our hours were fairly reasonable by industry standards: Starting late Jan, 50 for first two weeks and then 55 until April. To be honest, I do usually end up having 1 week north of 70 billable, but that’s not expected or encouraged by my firm or my local leadership.
This is light for PA.
Some of the hours here are madness! I average 35-40 hours billable a week year round. Even during our tax filing deadline (non-US) most people don’t exceed 40.
We do that crazy thing of hiring more people to balance the workload rather than drowning the staff so they burn out and just leave. I picture fairly high turnover.
Wow, imagine that! Deloitte really out here being the bigger person
and this is why I am very upfront about hours/OT when I interview people. these hours should not be a surprise
Yeah of course I did, and I was expecting to have to work a lot. But the firm I’m at decided to structure things in this way just this year. When I was hired they claimed they didn’t do “minimums” much like the GT individual that replied. Maybe my interviewer wasn’t aware of the changes? So that being said I was just seeing how they compared to others
We don’t have mandatory minimums. We’re expected to all manage our schedules and get work done according to our client load.
I’m in CA and have never been told I have a minimum to hit.
Not in tax but usually work 50-65 Jan - April
Been on minimum mandatory 50s since October. Minimum 55s now, likely will be 60 ramping into 70s during Feb and March will be free for all anything goes
Big 4 and yeah I’ve had 3 busy seasons in the past 12 months 🙃
That’s on the low end for sure
60 per week until the end of March
I’ve done this for 7-8 years now and no matter how many 80+ hour weeks I’ve worked during that time, the first week or 2 I have to hit 50 each busy season exhausts me. Then my stamina builds up and by the end of tax season 50 is a piece of cake.
As I tell my new people if you get to do anything but work, eat and sleep the 2 months before each major deadline (2/15-4/15 and 8/15-10/15) consider it a bonus. Keeps the disappointment from setting in when you are missing things (back when there were things to miss).
This makes me feel better, thanks for sharing.
60-65 average charge hours per week from now till April 15th is normal in tax
Wow! I’m already struggling. Maybe I picked the wrong field
I am in salt and most of my overtime will be in March and April, September and October.
Where do you work? 😂 are they hiring managers? No less than 60-65 and actuals are around 75 in average
Haha! The managers have higher minimums I think but it’s kind of a mess. We have the minimums right after they rolled out this hourly monthly budgets for us to “self manage” so the minimums I mentioned aren’t the only thing you have to hit. Weird but the monthly personal goal (read: requirement) ends up being more than the minimums in some cases
55 minimum billable from mid January through 4/15
I’ve averaged 65 hours a week for the past 28 weeks, with two 40 hour weeks of vacation/holiday.
I’m in tax. I try to keep it around 40 during the spring. Will get up to 50 a couple weeks usually.
Fall is busier for me. 45-50 a week beginning in august through 10/15. A couple weeks that may approach 60.
No less that 60. Definitely worked a lot of 70-75 for 3/15 last year
I literally work 45 hours max most weeks. This does seem high
Minimum billables: 2/8-2/15: 55. 2/22-4/9: 60. After that back down to 40.
Minimum chargeable hours is 40 hours a week during downtime?
So even during downtime what are your hours like including non chargeable etc ??