What are your firms’ meal expense limits? The ~$33-55 per diem at Accenture seem low. How does this allowance vary by firm tier? (Big 4 vs T2 vs MBB)

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Right...difference is you pocket unspent funds at ACN. I prefer lower amount with opportunity to pocket. Makes a difference when you have 3 kids.

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Or you know, they could just pay us competitively

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The per diem we get seems on the low side but if you’re smart about it you can pocket as little or as much as 100 a week (depending on location ofcourse) and end up with an extra 400 a month tax free. That’s your car payment right there.

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All you Accenture people saying how great it is to pocket the $50 per week difference while you eat Chipotle for dinner and are underpaid - wake up.

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Lol OP I wish you realize how entitled you sound, not cute

Honestly I’ve walked away at the end of many many weeks pocketing $70-100 extra cash per week because of Accenture per diem

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I mostly eat at whole foods or Sweetgreen!

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This needs to change with our new growth model

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per diem is based on your location and ate set by GSA (feds). you should book them based on the rate on the site

I am getting MUCH lower than the fed rate.

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One caveat on the PwC numbers is that we don’t do a per diem. We are able to expense up to $75-$100 depending on city, but it’s not a per diem

Accenture is the same way. You don’t have to use per diem. You can expensive actuals.

it depends on location and not that bad...
$43/day in TX. Free breakfast at the hotel and about $10 lunch at the clients cafeteria (pretty good food), leaves me $33 for dinner. not too fancy but also not bad (especially if you do Chinese take away to catch up on work one night a week)

yeah - working for ACN now - prior firm was all actuals (filing receipts for everything) but there was not a limit (but people were looking). Breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee all paid for. Now I feel like a govt employee.

PWC people - is it the same for Strategy& or do they get special treatment?

Wonder how S& would retain people with an archaic expense policy

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AFS per diem ain’t that high

If you are traveling they do

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