Hi there,

This will generally take a while. At McKinsey, you'll basically have to wait until you're Partner when the global profit sharing for remuneration kicks in.

Bottom line, this is nothing you should be concerned about now because it's a very long-term issue that you have no control over. In consulting, you should generally focus more on the short-term because otherwise, there will be no long-term…

If remuneration is an issue for you now, however, you should consider changing offices to a higher paying location. This is generally possible but not before you've done a good stint at your home office for around ~2 years.

Hope this helps a bit to put things in perspective. Best of luck!

Hi there and congrats on your offer!

I agree with Moritz and Ian there and just want to add (in case you will be considering swathing offices, as Moritz suggested): just because a country is more developed, it does not mean the compensation there is higher. From my experience, MBB compensation is dependant more on supply of well-qualified talent: for instance, gross entry-level salaries in the Moscow office (prior to Feb 2022, naturally) were 50% higher than those in the Milan office, just because in Moscow it was companies that were competing for top talent, and in Milan - it was candidates  competing for top positions.

So I wouldn't be surprised to learn that actually some of the SEA offices are better off than some of the European ones.

Good luck anyway!

Hi there,

Congrats on the offer!

How about once you join, you just directly look at the materials the company has :)

This way there won't be any inaccuracies! This is going to depend on exact company + office.

The short answer to this question for McKinsey is - Senior Partner. All Senior Partners make the same globally regardless of country, but to get there is a 10-12 year journey.