Senior🐠 (Senior Manager +), do you find it hard to budget since your comp is so heavily-weighted for EOY and also highly variable?

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Never, ever budget based on bonuses. You only budget based off salary. A bonus is just that: a bonus.

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Fortunate enough to budget my life based on my base salary (including regular contributions/savings). Bonus is used to max out investment accounts. Really good years I’ll splurge a little more.

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Budget on base salary. Bonus is fun money.

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No. Monthly budgeting is based on base salary.

Annual purchase and investing decisions are based on lowest bonus range. At EY-P I have a bonus range of 25-45%. I assume 25% to be safe

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EY consulting doesn’t give very good bonuses, so I always budget on my base salary. Bonus goes to a couple of small fun things and the rest into investments.

Same as just about everyone else, budget is off salary only. Bonus goes to debt pay down or big home projects with a little fun money to treat myself.

I’m at Accenture so my bonus comp is so small I don’t factor it into my budget, just throw it in a college find or towards a new car when it hits

Op and I both live off our bonuses and save our salary

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