ZS Associates - is the ZS Cost of Living Adjustment a one time ‘bonus’ or is it actually added to your base, essentially a permanent increase in base salary are long as you remain in that office?

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The latter (fades away as you move from one level to another)

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It is added to your base as long as you remain in that office and is adjusted annually

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I believe it is not added to base - as COLA also reduces each year

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I’m at 130 as AC in NYC. My cola is 16k.

Post MBA I might think less than 8k.

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No, 130 base and 16k.
So total 146

Added to the base but as you grow in the organisation the amount gradually reduces. This is because you reach a salary band which is above the threshold at which COLA makes sense

Gotcha - thank you everyone who replied. Looks like it is a base salary increase, hence you don’t get a lump sum payment but each of your paychecks is higher?

Another questions - does anyone perhaps know what the COLA is for NYC at a consultant (post MBA) level?

It is given every year. As mentioned above COLA decreases every year.

Not technically added to the base - because it is not part of the eligible wages for Bonus i.e. if you get 15% bonus, it is 15% of the base salary received that year (which doesn’t include COLA)

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