Salary progression through the years?

Location: Bay Area / SF
Year 1: $57,500 (staff)
Year 2: $63,000 (staff), $80,000 (senior)
Year 3: $90,000 (staff, industry)
Year 4: $102,000 (senior, industry)

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Damn you can afford to only have two roommates now instead of three!!

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Jesus, thats that progression im trynna see

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Year 1 Analyst: 47 😭

Lol yep I can’t afford rent on a solo 1 bedroom for sure. We share

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Some ppl posted some stuff here a little while back:

https://joinfishbowl.com/post_dwrdv

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Lets see if I can roughly recreate:
Year 1-2: $49-50k Denver (Assoc PA)
Year 3-4: $55-60k Denver (Sr Assoc PA)
Year 5: $66k Denver (Mgr Industry)
Year 6: $76k Denver (Mgr Industry)
Year 7: $86k Denver (Mgr Industry, $30k bonus by now also)
Year 8: $150k SF (Mgr/Snr Mgr PA, $25k bonus ish)
Year 9: $165k SF (Mgr/Snr Mgr PA, $28k bonus ish)
Year 10: $89k Euro Office (Snr Mgr PA, $15-20k bonus)
Year 11: $113k Diff Euro Office (Snr Mgr PA, unclear bonus so far)
(Europe pays less but hey I won’t go bankrupt from health care and I have 32 vacation days on top of tons of holidays)

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EY 1 no I’m in tax. Though the OP is audit themselves I didn’t see the post restricted to audit (though I can now see if that is what they were after...). I was an experienced hire in SF as Manager. I put Mgr/Snr Mgr because back then they didn’t do SM in tax (they’ve reinstated it now). I was about to be promoted to Director when I left so I was effectively like an SM.

To update including bonuses:

1: 57k + $500 bonus lol
2: 63k / 80k + $1k bonus
3: 90k + 10.5k bonus + equity
4: 102k + 10.5k expected + equity refresh expected

Very motivating to hear from others. Gotta just stick with stuff and see it through. Dream isn’t to be an accountant etc but 20 years of mildly enjoying what I do doesn’t seem so bad anymore lol. Kinda hated my decision for this career a year and half into audit

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Hating your chouce is me every tax busy season and most pay days

Year 1: $56k ( Boston assoc PA) +$1500
Year 2: 59k (Boston assoc PA) left before bonus
Year 3: 75k (Philly acc advisory S1) +5k sign on +2.5k
Year 4: 84k (Charlotte acc adv S2) left before bonus
Year 5: 95k (Charlotte Mgmt Cons) + 12kish

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All I gotta say is go online and do a coat of living calculator. My salary goes very far here!

1: Experienced SA - $118
2: M - $135
3: M - $150
4: M - $163
5: D - $185

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Can I get similar data upto senior manager as well, also it's for which service line.

Bay Area Sf (I’ll include bonuses cuz I think it’s relevant- also, same firm throughout).

Year 1: $55
Year 2: $60
Year 3 -senior: 82+5
Year 4: 90+5
Year 5: 102+6
Year 6- manager: 126+14

That’s awesome. Thanks for sharing

You got over 35% from associate to senior?

If you’re responding to my comment, yeah I did. Bay Area demand is pretty wild.

Including bonuses (DC area Audit LOS):

0: $60k + $3k bonus
1: $64.5k + $4k bonus
2: $76k + $6.5k bonus
3: $81k + $8k bonus
4: $91k + $9k bonus expected and Manager promo

SF (base + bonus)

1. A1 - $57k
2. A2 - $62k
3. A3 - $74k
4. Industry - $110k
5. Industry - $120k

Yr 1: small firm in low cost area 41k +4.5 k bonus
Yr2: moves to nyc 62k start as staff +68k senior
Yr3: 76k (left firm in end of year)
Y4: 82k+ 14.5k bonuses
Cy: 87k bonuses unknown

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