What mid-career compensation (at age 45 or so) can I conservatively expect if I pursue Corporate Strategy, and exit at the Manager/PL/EM level? Currently at 31 years of age

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I’m exactly 45 and pretty much followed this path. Entirely dependent on industry, but a good conservative estimate is 350-600 base plus bonus. Stock is an additional dimension. I had a couple years 10 years ago where my “all in 275k” ended up being around 700k due to stock price appreciation.

That said, in industry a lot of “Corp strategy” roles are intermediary holding measures for outside talent to come in, report to a senior leader while working on special projects, and hopefully transition to a business unit / profit center. I went this route as I truly think being attached to an actual business driving revenue is a much more sustainable path than Corp strategy which, speaking from experience here, has a tendency to be viewed as an expensive cost center by the BUs who have to pick up the allocation.

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Yep. That’s what I’m saying.

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$300-400k base+bonus, wide variance based on stock options.

Not speaking from experience, 😅

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I would check the Charles Aris comp reports for some data points on ex-consultants

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Are you saying you're going to exit at 45, or that you're going to exit soon and are trying to project comp 10+ years down the road?

If the latter--depending on the firm, you could be anywhere from director to SVP+ level, so comp could really be anywhere from $200-$1M+.

Thanks! Yes was trying to assume a exit soon and what comp on median would be that far out. Understand that there is wide variance of course.

I would imagine you’d be a VP or a senior director at least by then, so anywhere from 275 to a shitton more.

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