Salaries Offered In India By Top Consulting Firms For The Role Of Management Consulting
Anyone familiar with the world of Management Consulting will know that the 'MBB' firms, i.e. McKinsey, BCG, and Bain are almost always right at the very top of the most sought-after firms to work with. Now we know why! These firms, which hire only the cream of India's talent pool (including MBA grads) are the best paymasters in the world of Consulting, at least in India. Accenture, one of the top recruiters at b-schools across various tiers, pays its Consultants an eye-watering median base salary of nearly ₹24.00 lakhs a year!
Salaries In India For The Role of Management Consulting
Consulting Salary data split location wise
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Salaries In India For The Role Of Management Consulting
Consulting Salary data is split by years of work experience.
Salaries Offered In The US By Top Consulting Firms For The Role Of Management Consulting
Many of the world's top Management Consulting firms are headquartered in major US cities. Even in the US, Consultants are some of the highest paid professionals sitting in the high rises of Manhattan, Atlanta, or Los Angeles. Consultants who are graduates of the world's top b-schools are especially well-paid and can earn base salaries well beyond $160,000. Once again, the MBB firms emerge as the best paymasters in the US, with the BCG office in New York city offering its Consultants a median base salary of a cool $167,000. That's ₹1.3 crores and this doesn't even include bonuses and perks! Did you know - the average Management Consultant in NYC earns a base salary of $110,000, and can earn up to $35,000 as an annual bonus? It's also no surprise that the top paying firms are all based out of the Big Apple - New York City!
Salaries Offered In The UK By Top Consulting Firms For The Role Of Management Consulting
The UK (or London specifically) is an exception to the dominance of the MBB firms as paymasters. Here, The Berkeley Partnership - an independent management consultancy based out of New York and London tops the chart of the top paying Consulting firm in the UK, offering its Management Consultants a whopping 110,000 GBP just as a median base salary. That's upwards of ₹1 crore a year!
One of the three MBB firms does, however, feature among the top 3 Consulting paymasters in the UK, followed by the Chicago-based global consulting firm, AT Kearney.
So It's Clear: The Consulting Salary Trends Are Great - But Is A Consulting Career Really Worth It?
- The Consulting industry is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 30% & is set to become a USD 3.8 billion industry in India alone!
- The InsideIIM Recruitment Survey reveals that close to 23% of MBA students who took the survey voted it as their most preferred sector & more than 60% chose Consulting as one of their top 3 sectors.
- Top B-schools like ISB witnessed 22% of the total job offers in the big three Consulting firms (MBB).
- According to an Economic Times report, to the surprise of many, Consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Kearney, Accenture, and PwC have recruited heavily from undergrad schools also.
Overall, the state of the industry is in good shape and a consultant's job role has always been necessary for the industry since companies require knowledgeable advisors who can help them navigate obstacles on the way to success. Therefore, Management Consultants are always in-demand.
So how do you get into Consulting? What are the skills required and how do you acquire them? What are the interviews like and how do you prepare for them & get into top Consulting firms?
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-> Consulting concepts & frameworks,
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-> do a business case simulation, and
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3. Learn industry orientation, practical know-how, & important tools from Consulting experts who've worked with BCG, PwC, Deloitte, Accenture, HUL, etc.
4. 1-on-1 mock interviews with experts: case interviews/guesstimates
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7. Regular performance evaluation
8. Get access to recordings for revision
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