Consulting careers
What the job pays, how fast it moves, and where people go afterwards. These guides prefer a published number to a confident one: an employer's own pay range, a filing, a school's employment report. Where a figure is ours, the page says so and shows the arithmetic. Where a market is unmeasured, the page says that too, because a salary page that cannot name its source is a salary page you should not plan around.
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Consultant Salary 2026: The Same Title, Four Pay Floors
A consultant salary depends on the rung the title names. Four employers filed the title Consultant this year, from a $104,700 median to a $190,000 floor.
Consulting Internships 2026: Which Ones Are Internships
Bain sorts its own programs by length and files seven American ones under one week or less. Which consulting internships run ten weeks, and which run two days.
What the Deloitte Company Is in 2026: Three Firm Names
The Deloitte company is an organization of member firms coordinated from London. Read the three names in its legal title, US$74.5 billion, and the gaps.
IT Consulting Companies 2026: Eight Codes, One Label
IT consulting companies carry eight different SEC industry codes, and three of nineteen carry the management consulting one. What a candidate reads from that.
What the PwC Company Is in 2026: A Network of Firms
The PwC company is a brand over separate firms owned by nobody in common. Read the legal wording PwC prints, the 364,782 headcount and the five gaps it leaves.
BCG vs Bain 2026: Ten Gaps That Should Change Your Prep
Ten differences read from BCG and Bain pages on 30 September 2026: two worked Bain cases, a 60 day reply promise, and a market figure that does not close.
McKinsey vs BCG 2026: What Each Firm Actually Publishes
What McKinsey and BCG each publish about themselves: entry titles, two 8 to 10 week internships, screen clocks, travel limits, and six numbers against one.
BCG Levels 2026: Six Rungs With Interlocking Bands
BCG filed 648 certified salaries this year. Six consulting rungs, from a $110,000 Associate floor to a $276,500 Partner ceiling, and every boundary shared.
Why Bain in 2026: Answer With the Firm's Own Numbers
Bain says it advises about 80% of the largest private equity firms, checked 29 September 2026. Build the answer on figures like that rather than on culture.
Why BCG in 2026: Answer Against Its Published Lists
BCG publishes five values, seven competencies and a 16-industry footprint, checked 29 September 2026. Build a Why BCG answer that reads against those lists.
Why Oliver Wyman 2026: Answer With Its Six Criteria
Oliver Wyman publishes six evaluation criteria and an 11-industry list, checked 29 September 2026. Use both to build an answer that fits a 15-minute fit call.
Big 4 Consulting Firms 2026: What Each One Publishes
Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG read from their own reports: $224.4b across four fiscal years, and only two of the big 4 consulting firms give a consulting figure.
MBB 2026: One Word, Two Rungs, $82,000 Of Difference
McKinsey, BCG and Bain filed 1,201 certified applications this year. What each firm publishes about itself, and where their six ladders stop matching.
CapTech Consulting 2026: The Work, The Pay, The Rounds
CapTech sells four technology service areas from eight offices, printed a base pay band in 47 of 130 live openings, and publishes its own Power Day guide.
Consulting Career Path 2026: Which Door Your Degree Opens
There are 1,077,100 management analysts in the US, and the consulting career path the search results describe belongs to a few firms. Which door each opens.
Consulting Exit Opportunities 2026: The Alumni Job Boards
The Labor Department projects 94,100 openings a year for management analysts, and 88% replace someone who left. Consulting exit opportunities have an address.
Top Consulting Firms in Germany 2026: Offices and Pay
Nine consulting firms in Germany, the cities each one names on its own site, McKinsey's published headcount per office, and what the postings say about pay.
Consulting Firms in Dubai 2026: One Gulf Office of Four
Five firms that name a Dubai office themselves, the four Gulf cities they all share, the Emiratisation rule above them, and the pay that nobody publishes.
Consulting Firms in India 2026: Follow the Audited Offers
Which firms name Indian offices, and what an audited IIM Ahmedabad placement report shows: 156 of 395 accepted offers went to consulting, with pay by sector.
Dutch Consulting Firms 2026: Grade Floors and Dutch C1
Six firms that name a Dutch office, the grade and language floors two of them publish, the 2026 IND permit thresholds, and what the CBS measured for the branch.
Top Consulting Firms in Singapore 2026: Offices and Pay
Consulting firms in Singapore 2026: 11 offices named on the firms' own pages, the S$5,600 Employment Pass floor, 40 COMPASS points, official graduate pay.
UK Consulting Firms 2026: Check Who Can Sponsor You
Nine firms, the UK cities each names on its own site, the 50,200 pound going rate that decides which salary a visa can carry, and ten public sector lots.
Consulting Internship 2026: One Application, Two Seats
A consulting internship runs eight to ten weeks, and at BCG it shares the full-time application. The firms' own pages on screens, timings and a $108,000 rate.
Consulting Internship Return Offer 2026: Who Promises What
Read 30 September 2026: Bain promises MBA interns a return with no further interview, its undergraduate page stops short, and BCG asks interns to apply again.
Consulting Offer Negotiation 2026: Ask in This Order
The median consulting signing bonus was $30,000 in the Class of 2025, on a class range of $10,000 to $50,000. That spread is where an offer actually moves.
Consulting Project Team Structure 2026: The Workstream Rule
Read 30 September 2026: what each seat on a consulting project owns in its firm's own words, why the workstream is the unit, and why filings show no pyramid.
What It Is Like to Be a Management Consultant 2026: Counted
What it is like to be a management consultant, counted from the firms own timestamps: ten hour days, a fifty hour floor, and the evening block nobody times.
Tech Consulting 2026: The Work, the Names, the Two Doors
Tech consulting is advice plus delivery, and Accenture files the proof at half its revenue. What the work is, what firms call it, and the two ways in.
Nonprofit Consulting Firms 2026: What The 990s Show
Nine social-sector organizations, every figure from its own IRS filing. Fee income runs from 1.1 to 83.7 percent of revenue, and seven of nine ran a deficit.
Applying to Consulting With a Low GPA: 2026 Floors
The grade floors consulting firms actually print, checked 30 September 2026: Deloitte 3.3 on strategy, 3.0 on audit, KPMG 3.0 post-MBA, and MBB none at all.
How Do You Get Into Consulting in 2026: Four Live Doors
How do you get into consulting? Four live doors, each with the degree rule and closing date the firm printed: Deloitte 1 November 2026, BCG 13 August 2026.
Getting Into MBB in 2026: Three Screens, Three Rulebooks
McKinsey, BCG and Bain run three screens that share no rule on length or sitting, and one school counted its own intake: 188 hires in 2024, 86 of them returns.
Is Consulting Right For You? Four Real Numbers, 2026
The Labor Department counts 1,077,100 management analysts at a $101,860 median. Two McKinsey postings state travel up to 80%. Four published figures to weigh.
McKinsey Business Analyst 2026: Three Bands, One Title
McKinsey runs four live Business Analyst postings. The generalist pays $112,000 to $125,000; Operations and Transformation start at $125,000 and go to $132,000.
McKinsey Competitors 2026: Who Publishes Real Numbers
Nine McKinsey competitors, ranked by nothing. Each line carries the revenue, headcount or SEC filing the firm published itself, with the date we read it.
McKinsey Firm Overview 2026: 24 Practices, Counted
What the firm publishes about itself, counted on its own pages on 30 September 2026: 24 industries, 13 capabilities, six US leaders, and the gaps it leaves.
McKinsey Hierarchy 2026: Five Named Rungs, Two More
The McKinsey hierarchy names five consulting levels on the careers site. Labor Department filings carry seven, from a $112,000 floor to a $375,000 Partner.
Pharmaceutical Consulting 2026: What Pays for the Work
The two public clocks driving pharma consulting demand in 2026, read from CMS, FDA and SEC filings, plus the practice each of seven firms publishes by name.
Consulting Clubs 2026: What They Run, and What They Owe
What a consulting club runs, and the rules it must follow: no resumes, one interview of 30 minutes, no group cases, written feedback on every rejection.
Consulting Recruiting Delays 2026: Read the Real Clock
McKinsey's own deadline page sat 271 days stale. Schools publish the share of a class still without an offer at three months: 10, 12 and 19 percent in 2025.
Freshman Consulting Internships 2026: Two of Eight Fit
Of eight programs the market files under freshman consulting internships, two name a first year in the firm's own words, and neither is on a live firm URL.
MBA Consulting Recruiting Timeline: The 2026-27 Calendar
The MBA consulting recruiting timeline for 2026-27: BCG printed two deadlines to the minute, and two school career offices print fifteen dates of their own.
Reapplying to Consulting 2026: The Rule Firms Publish
Five consulting firms publish a reapplication rule and none names a waiting period. Here is what BCG, McKinsey, Bain and Deloitte wrote, read 30 September 2026.
UK Consulting Recruiting 2026: The Dates Firms Publish
One London firm prints a 1 November 2026 deadline, its six stages and 150 minutes of interview time. UK graduate hiring is down 24.5 percent since 2022.
Undergrad Consulting Recruiting 2026: Which Door Opens
BCG's 2027 undergraduate windows closed before October. What each firm publishes: three doors, 65 to 70 minutes of screens, and one qualifying summer.
Accenture Consultant Salary 2026: Where Offers Land
The Accenture consultant salary range runs $59,100 to $188,100 on its own posting, while its 116 Manager filings cluster between $163,500 and $175,600.
Bain Consultant Salary 2026: Match Your Rung to the Band
Bain filed a $212,000 Manager salary this year, and every Bain consultant salary band lands one per government wage level. All six rungs, with sources.
Boston Consulting Group Salary 2026: One Unbroken Scale
Boston Consulting Group salary, rung by rung: a $190,000 Consultant figure filed in 23 US cities, and each rung's ceiling is the floor of the next rung up.
Consulting Salary by City 2026: Level First, Office Second
BCG filed one $190,000 Consultant floor across 23 US cities, while the federal benchmark behind those same filings ran from $77,709 to $130,187 by city.
Consulting Salary Guide 2026: One Comparable Wage Basis
Sixteen firms filed salaries with the Labor Department this year, from a $95,000 analyst floor to a $427,000 partner. One basis, every figure dated and sourced.
Deloitte Consultant Salary 2026: Filed Pay, Four Ladders
Deloitte filed a $167,835 median Manager salary across 179 US cities this year. Every Deloitte consultant salary band, grade by grade, on four ladders.
Ernst & Young Salary 2026: The Bands EY Posts by Region
Ernst & Young salary at four consulting grades: a $125,900 to $231,100 Manager base band, and 20 percent more in three states, quoted from EY's own job ads.
Kearney Consultant Salary 2026: Every Band the Firm Posts
Every Kearney consultant salary the firm posts, from its own board: $188,000 to $194,000 for post-MBA Associates and $212,000 to $235,000 for Managers.
L.E.K. Salary 2026: What Each Level's Offer Starts At
L.E.K. states $135,000 at Associate Consultant, $185,000 at Consultant and $241,500 at Manager. Every published figure, with the Labor filing behind it.
McKinsey Consultant Salary 2026: The Bands the Firm Files
McKinsey filed a $192,000 to $212,000 Associate band in 25 US cities. Every McKinsey consultant salary level, from Labor Department records and postings.
Oliver Wyman Consultant Salary 2026: Its Own Postings
Oliver Wyman states a base salary range in 51 of its 71 open US job postings, running from $135,000 at Senior Consultant to $265,000 at Principal level.
PwC Consulting Salary 2026: The Grade Bands PwC Publishes
The PwC consulting salary, grade by grade: the Advisory range PwC publishes for New York runs $58,500 to $541,000, beside what it filed in 52 US cities.
Consulting Salary Report 2026: Check the Number Yourself
Sixteen consulting employers filed 12,211 certified salaries with the US Labor Department for decisions dated between October 2025 and June 2026. Read them.
Roland Berger Salary 2026: Reading a Nine Line Record
Roland Berger posts $120,000 for US Consultants and $180,000 for Senior Consultants. Nine certified Labor filings carry the rest, read one row at a time.
Automotive Consulting 2026: Twelve Firms, No Ranking
Twelve automotive consulting firms with a practice page we read, the numbers each puts in writing, and one 2030 forecast redone. Checked 30 September 2026.
Top 14 Energy Consulting Firms 2026: Oil, Gas, Power
The 14 energy consulting firms: strategy houses, Big 4 practices, utility and engineering specialists, and regulatory economists, with the segments each names.
Financial Services Consulting 2026: Where Insurance Sits
Eleven firms, the financial services practice each one names on its own site, the boundary fight over insurance, and the 3.32 percent margin the FDIC prints.
Healthcare Consulting Firms 2026: 13 Practices, Sourced
Thirteen healthcare consulting firms, each with the practice its own site publishes and the door it names. L.E.K. names 19 sub-segments. No invented rank.
IT Consulting Firms 2026: Strategy, Delivery, Deadlines
Thirteen firms, the technology practice each one publishes, and the one firm that posts its application deadlines school by school. Read from their own sites.
Top 9 Manufacturing Consulting Firms 2026: MBB to Niche
The nine manufacturing consulting firms, from MBB to a factory specialist, with each firm's own label for the work, what its page names, and the capacity rate.
Top 11 Oil and Gas Consulting Firms 2026: By Segment
Eleven oil and gas consulting firms, from MBB to the Big 4, Tier 2 and the reserve evaluators, with the chain segment each firm's own practice page names.
Top Pharma Consulting Firms 2026: Follow the Access Work
The top pharma consulting firms, the life sciences label each one publishes, and the Medicare prices effective January 2027 that put market access first.
Big 3 Consulting Firms 2026: McKinsey, BCG, and Bain
The Big 3 consulting firms are McKinsey, BCG, and Bain. Founding years, the one revenue figure published, Big 3 against Big 4, and the whole firm map.
What a BCG Principal Does in 2026: Two Live Postings
BCG posted two Principal roles in September 2026. They publish the duties, a $252,900 base, and two experience floors four years apart from each other.
What Accenture Does in 2026: The Revenue Mix, Sourced
What does Accenture do? It books two types of work. In fiscal 2025 consulting was $35,107 million and managed services $34,566 million. The mix is moving.
McKinsey Associate 2026: The Workstream You Would Own
McKinsey says an associate takes ownership of a workstream. Here is what that means hour by hour, who enters the seat, and the $192,000 floor it files.
McKinsey Engagement Manager 2026: Team Size, Entry Bar
McKinsey's live posting puts an engagement manager over three to five consultants and asks eight years of consulting from an outside hire. Inside is faster.
What Is Accenture? Services, Revenue, and Hiring 2026
What is Accenture? A Dublin-based professional services company listed in New York as ACN, with $74.18 billion of fiscal 2026 revenue and 814,000 people.
What Bain & Company Is in 2026: Where the Work Comes From
What Bain & Company is, in its own words: it advises investors as much as operators. Read the diligence concentration and the five gaps it leaves open.
What BCG Is in 2026: The Firm Behind Its Own Numbers
What is BCG? Boston Consulting Group prints its headcount, its revenue and its office count. Read what those imply, and what the firm chooses to withhold.
What Is Consulting? Types, Work, Pay, and Careers 2026
Consulting is paid outside help on a problem a client owns. Here is the official job name, the six types, the work itself, the pay, and how people get in.
What MBB Consulting Means In 2026: Label Versus Size
McKinsey billed $39.1m in US federal contracts in fiscal 2026, Deloitte Consulting $2.89bn. What MBB consulting groups as a label, and what it gets wrong.
What Is Strategy 2026: The Two Sources That Count It
Porter's own institute defines strategy as choosing what to give up. A study of 2,393 firms prices it: top-quintile odds of 8 percent, or 47 with three moves.
Why McKinsey in 2026: An Answer Built From Its Own Pages
McKinsey lists 25 industry practices and 13 capabilities on its own site, checked 29 September 2026. Answer why McKinsey from that list and it can be verified.
Working at McKinsey 2026: The Four Numbers It Files
The firm quantifies four things on its benefits page and none of its 23 listed benefits. Two of its own pages give two alumni counts, 50,000 and 60,000.