What consulting and banking actually pay
Base salary by firm and level, computed from 2,922,613 certified US Department of Labor filings across 21 quarterly disclosure releases. Every figure on this site shows the number of filings behind it and the date it came from. Nothing is modelled, estimated or filled in.
Published pages
| Firm and level | Median base | n |
|---|---|---|
| McKinsey & Company Business Analyst | $112,000 | 493 |
| McKinsey & Company Associate | $192,000 | 602 |
| McKinsey & Company Engagement Manager | $185,000 | 389 |
| Boston Consulting Group Business Analyst | $110,000 | 112 |
| Boston Consulting Group Associate | $190,000 | 484 |
| Boston Consulting Group Engagement Manager | $225,400 | 198 |
| Bain & Company Business Analyst | $112,000 | 115 |
| Bain & Company Associate | $192,000 | 172 |
| Deloitte Associate | $121,000 | 7,881 |
| PwC Associate | $138,600 | 2,086 |
Every firm and level with data loaded, including the ones whose pages publish in a later wave.
Why these numbers and not the usual ones
Most salary sites run on self-reported submissions with no stated sample size. These figures come from a government file: an employer legally certifying the wage it would pay a named role at a named worksite. That makes them verifiable and makes them narrow, and both halves of that are stated on every page.
The narrowness is real. This is base salary only, which is roughly 70% of total compensation in consulting and 55% or less in banking. It is US worksites only. And it covers only roles a firm sponsored a visa for. The method page lists every limit, every firm dropped and why.
Data released through 30 June 2026. Last built .