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Originally Posted by Unregistered
overall big 4 is a decent starting point but prepare for a frugal life while your peers are getting 50%-100% more pay in other companies. your payback comes only after 4-5 years of working, when you are now valuable and can jump to a mnc outside. even then, only expect about 20-30% increment from your then payscale.
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This is a fantasy perpetuated by Big4. Reality is that if you were to join a MNC/GLC/public sector right at the start after 5 years you will still be doing the same or better without having to slave through the 5 years.
5k after 5 years with 13.5-14 mths is just $65-70k in Big4. A typical fresh grad after 5 years in public sector will also make ~5k on 16 mths which end up higher at $80k. Those who join as finance execs in MNCs after 5 years would have made >$5k on 15-20 mths package depending on industry.
The Big4 have done a good job trying to sell to ignorant fresh grads that slaving for them with garbage pay & crap hours right after school is "compulsory" in order to "make it big" over the long term. Reality is that slaving for Big4 doesn't really propel your career trajectory in any meaningful way compared to if you had just joined a junior degree job right at the start in most bigger companies or public sector.