We’ve all seen those public accounting / big 4 salary progression posts, but I’m much more curious about salary progression of people who have exited PA and have switched jobs every 1-3 years. Anyone willing to volunteer information?

Please provide job title, industry, YoE (PA and industry), base, bonus, and COL.

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NYC:

Base 60 Bonus 2 - Audit
Base 64 Bonus 5 - Audit
(Switch)
Base 82 Bonus 3 - Advisory
Base 95 Bonus 7.5 - Advisory
Base 120 Bonus 15 - Advisory
(Switch)
Base 175 Bonus 90k+ - Banking
Base 200 Bonus 100k+ - Banking (currently here)

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NYC

2015: audit, 57k
2016: audit 62k
2017: audit 75k + 3k bonus
2018 audit 84k + 5k bonus
2019: audit 108k + 9k bonus (early promotion to manager)
2020: Senior fund accountant 120k + 20k bonus
2021: Senior FA: 125k + 25k bonus
2022: Job switch senior manager fund accounting. 155k base 35k bonus
2023: SM 158k base bonus tbd

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It’s a competitive industry which I like. It’s hard to get promoted. Jumping around and networking your tail off is almost essential to move up. There are shops that are dead end shops and there are shops with plenty of opportunity and tons of learning and appropriately challenging.

The TLDR is yes I like it, but there’s a wide array of shops that vary in what they can offer you and finding the right fit is paramount.

LCOL audit
‘15: 50k A1
‘16: 53k A2
‘17: 56k A3
‘18: 68k S1
‘19: 71k S2
‘20: 76k S3
‘21: 92k M1
‘22: 100k TAS A1
‘23: 130k TAS S1

Base only.

LEAVE. AUDIT. IMMEDIATELY.

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