WTH do advisory people do? Have some on my initiative work that can't make a slide to save their life... Lower hiring standards? Different skill set?

Different skill set focused on a different target client. They could be asking why you're spending so much time on slides.

Dude you need to grow up and open your eyes

@OP: you fix slides? That's cute. We run codes and do analysis on Tableau, R and Excel (many more for sure). We provide the content that you put on the slides. Happy?

I would phrase it as such. Consulting 'creates' shareholder value while Advisory 'protects' shareholder value. As Advisory only really works with larger Fortune-500-type clients, it could be argued that the protection of $X Billion in revenue can, at times, be more valuable then an initiative that either creates or saves $X Millions. As Deloitte doesn't do a great job of explaining this distinction at any point, I'd be interested in feedback on this interpretation as this is my best effort at it.

@NY1: that's exactly how one of the PPDs explained it to me and I agree. Having said that, we do strategy work as well. But mainly protecting value is what we focus on.

Advisory hires have actual skillsets from their bachelor degrees. Consulting hires have to go back for an MBA

We make the customer feel comfortable. Advise them. Clients like advisory -people / change / organization / HRT consultants more than a nerdy tech geeks who can't get above numbers and details. Clients will remember us longer. And we will get paid more for doing less work. :) understand advisory work now? 😂

I don't see Advisory having a higher salaries...

PwC advisory is different. At Deloitte advisory is paid considerably less, recruited out of middle-tier schools rather than top, and basically does the bitch work where the three consulting arms do the "relationship selling"