Overjoyed to find out my new salary will be less than an incoming associate who gets their CPA bonus. 🙃

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I made more my first yr than second yr because of the CPA bonus in the first yr. Felt like I got demoted my second yr.

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I never got a cpa bonus :(

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Bonus isn't salary nor is it guaranteed year to year so you gotta look at it from a purely salary standpoint

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Try 3k less than a new first year 🙄. Such fucken BS #overworked #underpaid

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Yup. Right there with you. 😂😓

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Most first years don't get the bonus anyways.

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Haha true for all of us

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