There’s a notion that your career progresses much more slowly in industry than in public accounting, however I’m not sure if this notion fully accounts for people job hopping after exiting public accounting.

Anyone who exited PA willing to share their progression since (in terms of title/comp)? How has that compared to your peers who have stayed? Did you have to hop around to keep progressing?

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It really just depends. But PA promotions are definitely "easier" since you'll probably get them just from sticking around. In industry it is easy for people to get comfortable, so there may not be a business need until someone retires, leaves, or there's an org restructure.

I went B4 > industry FP&A > industry corp finance and I had to be proactive to get my promotions.

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most of my friends who left to industry promoted at a similar timeline to me in Public at least through senior Manager. Not sure what it looks like at the Director level.

You have to take your career into your own hands in industry. No automatic “tenure” promotions. It’s easy to get comfortable.

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