When accounting goes unaccounted for
Should you be looking for the discussion of KPMG compensation for this year of our lord, 2015, let us direct you this way.
And should you still want to participate in any of the comp discussions from this year, here are the firms we covered:
That's more or less a wrap on compensation season. If your firm got passed over and you want to start a discussion, drop it in Open Items.
Last October, we published an article written by a former KPMG senior associate, which you […]
From the mailbag:
Happened to be sitting behind someone on my NYC commute this week who was reading a deck (in font large enough for me to read) on EY’s salary ranges etc. Didn’t see any $ numbers and most was hard to see without context or the full page but I did see this:
(I don’t know ey terms – apr = annual performance rating?)
APR 3 4 5 S. Mgr 1% 2% 3% Mgr 2% 3% 4%
Our tipster stated that the percentages were supposed to represent “minimum raise.” Hard what to make of this as rumors have been all over the board from “They told us not to have very high expectations,” to ” Per my discussions with an Office Managing Partner and a National Practice Leader …. raises should be close to (if not the same) as prior year.” But considering there’s an expensive legal battle on the horizon, maybe this isn’t so crazy? Discuss.
[R]esearchers examined “agreeableness” using self-reported survey data and found that men who measured below average on agreeableness earned about 18% more—or $9,772 more annually in their sample—than nicer guys. Ruder women, meanwhile, earned about 5% or $1,828 more than their agreeable counterparts. [WSJ]