Q: Big4 - Yearly salary increment

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Haha with the amount of work and high resignations, do you think the morale can be boosted so easily? They have to make early announcement on the increment news if not there are really no one left. Expect another big wave of resignations after bonus and things will get even worse.

If you have a choice, dont join big 4, especially EY. With the stricter regulations and tight margins, things are getting worse by the day. There are no aws, no weekends-need to work to clear workloads and study sqp, no culture-most homegrown seniors/managers have already left, and unappreciative partners who are turning a deaf ear to the staff suffering, you need to seriously consider whether you really want to join them. The wage and career progression are not as good as its heydays.

Tbh this guy is right. We’ve been receiving reduced salaries due to covid and our annual promotion and bonus are still delayed till october while the rest of the other big 4 have shifted back to july. I don’t think their salaries were reduced during covid as well. Partners are only concerned of their own high earnings and homegrown staff have been leaving. Unlikely the salaries will bump up a lot because their might just increase back to pre-covid. People intend to leave after getting the bonus

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Haha with the amount of work and high resignations, do you think the morale can be boosted so easily? They have to make early announcement on the increment news if not there are really no one left. Expect another big wave of resignations after bonus and things will get even worse.

If you have a choice, dont join big 4, especially EY. With the stricter regulations and tight margins, things are getting worse by the day. There are no aws, no weekends-need to work to clear workloads and study sqp, no culture-most homegrown seniors/managers have already left, and unappreciative partners who are turning a deaf ear to the staff suffering, you need to seriously consider whether you really want to join them. The wage and career progression are not as good as its heydays.

Thank you for sharing the insights, didn’t know situation is bad to this extent

Morale issue? Just raise salaries and bonuses. And hire more people to reduce workload and stress on existing staff.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Morale issue? Just raise salaries and bonuses. And hire more people to reduce workload and stress on existing staff.

Raise salary, bonus and hire more people then the partners where got money to buy their next car and penthouse?

Everyone wanna be in big4 because chasing the partner dream. Now uni grads getting smarter, they would go in for a few years to get CFA (of course this method means must chiong in studies) and then leave for higher pay elsewhere.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Everyone wanna be in big4 because chasing the partner dream. Now uni grads getting smarter, they would go in for a few years to get CFA (of course this method means must chiong in studies) and then leave for higher pay elsewhere.

Not really, that is outdated. Nowadays more leaving earlier even without getting their CFA because workload increased and pay still the same

How’s yellow SaT ? Heard is pretty good this year

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Can't speak for audit. Consulting wasn't really good a few years back, but much better now.



Lets just say it's at the higher end of the range you quoted.

I thou SM should be 5 digit already ?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Morale issue? Just raise salaries and bonuses. And hire more people to reduce workload and stress on existing staff.

How important are salaries to you guys? I guess the responses might be skewed because this is a salary forum after all.

What about other non-monetary factors?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How important are salaries to you guys? I guess the responses might be skewed because this is a salary forum after all.

What about other non-monetary factors?

If you don’t even have enough salary to go by or live averagely, who will really care about non-monetary factor ?

The society is still very realistic, you are benchmark based on your earning power or grades when you are schooling.