What determines whether you get low, mid or high no. of units upon admission into a B4 partnership?

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From PwC perspective
1) Whether you are being admitted into Partnership from MD or Director level
2) Strength of your partner business case - For example, I know a Director who started a successful new hot service offering in the Cyber Security area with $60M pipeline. He made Partner within two years and landed with highest new partner 1 cohort. After three years, he is already leading a practice of $150M P&L
3) Performance in the last 2-3 years
4) Last but not least, it depends upon how much your bosses like you.

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Might as well wait at this point since it's only a couple of weeks out and the outcome isn't changing.

Please clarify “take home pay,” as that would include all of the various benefits, pension contributions, 401k match, loan payback, etc. I’m surprised to hear you double your pay net of that first year.

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“Take home pay” = pay you take home

Not sure what else you want me to say here

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The PwC numbers I’m seeing here seem significantly higher than what I’m hearing EY first year partner numbers are. Everything I’ve heard at EY was that your take home from your final pre-partner year was about the same as year 1 as a Partner.

That’s incredible. The partner role, specifically things like comp, can sometimes feel like a black box. If folks knew there was such a big difference it likely would make recruiting in B4 different.

Echo P2. This thread motivated me to look and including my bonus from my last year as a D (paid my first year as a partner, technically), the $s hitting my bank account from PwC were 94% higher my first year as a partner. That being said, I shifted health care and some other expenses to my spouse’s plan but was dumping way more into retirement so net/net about double take home.

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