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EY Consulting Salary 2026: Pay by Level, Practice and Office

By case-prep.comPublished August 10, 2026Updated August 21, 20269 min read

EY pay depends less on the EY name than on which door you walk through. Core EY Consulting is the generalist track and the one most candidates join, sitting at the lower end of the Big 4 range alongside KPMG. A core US Analyst starts near $97,000 all in. The strategy arm, EY-Parthenon, pays 20 to 35 percent more at every level. The explorer below opens on core EY Consulting; switch the practice selector to see the strategy arm.

Core starting pay, US

$97K

Analyst, undergraduate entry

Post-MBA, core

$166K

Consultant, year one

Manager, core

$243K

Base plus bonus and incentive pay

Partner, core

$264K+

Base plus bonus, no equity

Pick a practice, level and office

EY runs more rungs than MBB, which slows promotion but smooths pay growth. This page opens on core EY Consulting, the generalist track. Switch the practice selector to price the same ladder inside EY-Parthenon.

Practice

Office

Analyst

EY Consulting, years 1 to 2

Reported

$97,000USD total, year one

Typical range $85,000 to $110,000, EY Consulting in United States

If you stay: total compensation by year

Seven rungs to Partner, typically 15 years or more. EY has no equity component, so senior pay is base plus bonus. Tap any point for the detail.

Before the salary comes the interview

Every EY offer comes down to the case

Core EY leans behavioural with a lighter case; EY-Parthenon runs structured strategy cases. Either way it is decided in the room. The loop below is how you get good at it: run a case, drill whatever broke, then run it again against a model answer.

Case Prep · Case interview

30:00

Step 1Run the case

Step 2Drill the gap

Step 3Improve

Read the prompt, build the structure

Case prompt

Client is a regional grocer 1 of 4

Profit down 18 percent 2 of 4

Volumes flat year on year 3 of 4

Two rivals opened nearby 4 of 4

Your structure

Revenue drivers

Cost base

Customer mix

Competitive response

Drill whatever the case exposed

Your structure held but the margin math slowed you down. Pick the drill that fixes it.

Framework builder, bucket by bucket

Case math, timed mental arithmetic

Brainstorming, ideas against a clock

margin 18% → 14.8% on flat volume = 3.2pts lost

Feedback, then run it again

Structure scored against a model answerMECE

Math checked step by step, not just the total4 of 4

Attempt three, same case type+21

1. Run the caseWork a full case end to end under the clock, in the format EY actually uses.

2. Drill the gapThe case shows you what broke. Go straight at it: structure, math or brainstorming.

3. ImproveDebrief against a model answer, then run the same case type again and watch the score move.

Practice cases Drill the case math →

Illustrative walkthrough of the practice loop. Figures shown are from an original practice case, not from a real interview.

What actually moves your number

EY employs several hundred thousand people across assurance, tax, strategy and transactions, and consulting. A single EY salary figure is close to meaningless, and the core consulting track this page opens on is a different scale from the strategy arm. Four things decide your offer.

The practice split is the whole story

EY-Parthenon pays 20 to 35 percent above core EY Consulting at every level, and the gap is widest at Senior Consultant and Manager where it reaches 30 to 35 percent. The reason is competitive, not generous. EY-Parthenon operates as a semi-autonomous strategy practice with its own salary structure, built specifically to compete with MBB and Tier 2 for MBA-graduate talent at exactly those experience levels. Core EY Consulting has no such pressure and sits at the lower end of the Big 4 range alongside KPMG.

EY has effectively no equity, which cuts both ways

Unlike an MBB or a Big 4 accounting partnership structure, senior EY consulting pay is base plus bonus with effectively no equity component. That caps the upside sharply relative to MBB partnership, where profit distributions drive most of a Partner's income. It also reduces the downside in weak years. Core EY Consulting partners report roughly $264,000 to $483,000, while EY-Parthenon partners can exceed $650,000, which is a fraction of what an MBB senior partner draws.

More rungs means slower promotion and smoother pay

The general EY path runs Analyst, Associate, Consultant, Manager, Senior Manager, Director or Executive Director, then Partner, with a Submitted Managing Director tier inserted before Partner in some structures. That is more rungs than MBB runs, so each promotion is smaller and they arrive further apart. If you value predictable progression over compressed jumps, this is a feature. If you are optimising for pay velocity, it is not.

The MBB lateral is a real and well-worn path

A common pattern is two to three years at McKinsey, BCG or Bain followed by a lateral into EY-Parthenon at Manager or Senior Manager. The lateral typically comes with a small salary lift over the equivalent MBB role plus materially better work-life balance. It is worth knowing this exists, because it means the EY-Parthenon Manager population you would join includes a lot of ex-MBB people, which raises the bar on the interview.

EY pay across eight offices

Core EY Consulting total compensation at undergraduate entry and Manager, in local currency. Add roughly 28 percent for EY-Parthenon.

Office	Analyst	Manager	Parthenon Manager	Evidence
United States	$97,000	$243,000	$311,000	Reported
Singapore	S$102,000	S$255,000	S$327,000	Indexed
Australia	A$92,000	A$231,000	A$295,000	Indexed
Canada	C$82,500	C$207,000	C$264,000	Indexed
UAE	$77,500	$194,000	$249,000	Indexed
Germany	€75,500	€190,000	€243,000	Indexed
United Kingdom	£43,500	£109,000	£140,000	Partly reported
India	₹1,067,000	₹2,673,000	₹3,421,000	Partly reported

Location has a large effect inside the US too: New York, Boston and San Francisco run highest, and EY-Parthenon's largest US strategy hubs are New York and Boston. The UK row spans London and the regional offices, which differ substantially, so treat it as a blend rather than a London figure.

Against the other Big 4 and MBB

Post-MBA entry, US, total compensation. Core consulting and strategy arm shown separately, because they are different jobs on different scales.

Firm and practice	Post-MBA total	Tier	Gap to MBB
McKinsey (MBB)	$262,000	MBB	Reference
Strategy& (PwC)	$250,000	Big 4 strategy	5% below
Monitor Deloitte	$253,000	Big 4 strategy	3% below
EY-Parthenon	$212,000	Big 4 strategy	19% below
EY Consulting	$166,000	Big 4 core	37% below

EY-Parthenon sits at the back of the Big 4 strategy pack on our figures, and core EY Consulting is a different conversation entirely. The Big 4 pay order in 2026 runs Monitor Deloitte, Strategy& and EY-Parthenon together at the strategy tier, then Deloitte and PwC ahead of EY and KPMG at the core tier. Core Big 4 consulting pays 10 to 25 percent below MBB; the strategy arms close that to 5 to 15 percent below. If you are weighing an EY-Parthenon offer against Monitor Deloitte or Strategy&, the pay difference is real but modest; the difference between EY-Parthenon and core EY Consulting is not. See the Deloitte, PwC and McKinsey pages for the comparison ladders.

Prep for the EY process

EY runs multi-round interviews combining case and behavioural questions. Core EY leans behavioural with a lighter case, so prepare for the practice you are actually applying through.

Timing EY application deadlines Current cycle dates by role and region across both practices, with the windows that close earliest flagged first. Practice Case library Core EY runs lighter, more conversational cases. Work full cases end to end with a debrief on every one. Free download EY cover letter template A structured template plus how to name the practice you want, which matters more at EY than at most firms. Firm guide EY-Parthenon interview guide If you are also considering the strategy arm, this is the process round by round and what interviewers score you against. Drills Case math drills Timed arithmetic under interview pressure, the most common reason otherwise strong candidates get cut. Drills Market sizing drills Over 70 drills with worked feedback, for the estimation questions that show up in screening rounds.

Where these numbers come from

EY does not publish consulting salary bands, but its scale produces large sample sizes and the EY-Parthenon arm is unusually well covered in crowdsourced data.

Sources, most to least direct

Levels.fyi. EY management consultant data spanning $104,000 at Consultant to $269,000 at Senior Manager, with a $172,000 median across levels.
Glassdoor. 2,766 EY-Parthenon salary reports as of February 2026, the largest single dataset behind the strategy arm figures on this page.
Management Consulted 2026 salary report. Source of the core EY entry base of $85,000 and the EY-Parthenon entry base of $100,000, and of the partner-level bands.
Wall Street Oasis and Fishbowl. Used to sense-check the practice premium and the MBB lateral pattern at Manager and Senior Manager.
Indexed estimates. Canada, Australia, Germany, Singapore and the UAE are modelled from the US ladder against local market rates. These rows are labelled Indicative. The UK and India are partly reported.

A caution on the practice premium: sources put it anywhere between 20 and 35 percent, and it genuinely varies by level, peaking at Senior Consultant and Manager. We apply a flat 28 percent, which is a deliberate simplification. At Analyst level the real gap is smaller and at Senior Consultant it is larger.

Common questions

A core EY Consulting Analyst in the US earns roughly $85,000 base plus a modest bonus and signing bonus, for total first-year compensation near $97,000. Inside EY-Parthenon the equivalent base is around $100,000, taking year one nearer $124,000. Core EY sits at the lower end of the Big 4 range, similar to KPMG.

EY-Parthenon is a semi-autonomous strategy practice with its own salary structure, built to compete with MBB for MBA talent. It pays 20 to 35 percent above core EY Consulting at every level, with the largest gap at Senior Consultant and Manager where it reaches 30 to 35 percent. It also screens hardest and runs structured strategy cases rather than the lighter behavioural interview core EY uses.

The general path runs Analyst, Associate, Consultant, Manager, Senior Manager, Director or Executive Director, then Partner, with a Submitted Managing Director tier sitting between Senior Manager and Partner in some structures. That is more rungs than MBB, so promotions are smaller and further apart.

Yes, slightly. Core EY Consulting sits at the lower end of the Big 4 core tier alongside KPMG, with Deloitte and PwC above. At the strategy tier the order is Monitor Deloitte and Strategy& ahead of EY-Parthenon, though all three are broadly comparable. Core Big 4 pays 10 to 25 percent below MBB and the strategy arms close that to 5 to 15 percent.

Effectively no. Senior EY consulting pay is base plus bonus with no meaningful equity component, unlike an MBB partnership where profit distributions dominate senior income. This caps upside relative to MBB but reduces volatility. Core EY partners report roughly $264,000 to $483,000; EY-Parthenon partners can exceed $650,000.

It is a well-worn path. A common pattern is two to three years at McKinsey, BCG or Bain followed by a lateral into EY-Parthenon at Manager or Senior Manager, typically with a small salary lift over the equivalent MBB role plus better work-life balance. It also means the population you are interviewing against at those levels includes many ex-MBB candidates.