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Take the higher comp, titles do not matter.
A manager at McKinsey makes almost as must as most Directors, AVPs etc
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Nothing matters but path to partner. Everything to that point is a rounding error
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A&M/fti/alix
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Take the higher pay
A&M / FTI / Alix. Not only due to immediate pay bump but also future pay scale increases (which will have a greater difference) and more interesting / high profile exit opportunities
Higher chance of Rx / PE / family office; most likely better levelling within focus industry alongside greater breadth (eg. corp dev / strategy & ops with PE-backing)
Take the comp at Tier 2. I’m a manager and honestly considering options to go down to SC and still make more at a Tier 2 …
I went from non-strat M to strat SC. Comp is as though I moved to SM and the performance bar and standards are also higher.