Big 4 among Fortune's 100 Best Companies To Work For
Fortune Magazine announced its version of TOP 100 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR.
No doubt, the Big 4 companies are within the top list. BUT, at what rankings? As a Big 4 employee, I wish the rankings could be higher. According to the rankings, we have to acknowledge - there are still plenty of companies which can offer better alternative than job at Big 4 )).
One of the survey parts is a rating called BIG PAY. Of course, Big 4 is still there but unfortunately - NOT within TOP 10.
The highest rank out of Big 4 in Big Pay rating is taken by E&Y:
Ernst&Young #36 (Manager - a client-serving position - $103,164)
Pricewaterhousecoopers #46 (Manager/Supervisor - $95,082),
Deloitte #57 (Senior / Senior Consultant - $83,488) and
KPMG #66 (Senior Associate - $75,000).
Being a non-US citizen, I wish these levels of salaries were standard all over the world, as they differ significantly (several times) from other regions right now.
Coming back to the TOP LIST, we have to thank FORTUNE for the column Job Growth. And what do we have here?
Pricewaterhousecoopers is a leader in staff layoffs - minus 2%! KPMG - zero growth.
Analyzing this statistics, we have to bear in mind that all companies were recruiting people in the beginning of the year (at least + 10% globally) - therefore - we can imagine the level of staff layoffs within the companies ((.
Source: Fortune
4 comments:
I'm sorry but you are entirely incorrect about layoffs at PwC. As you are probably aware all of the Big 4 have high turnover, along with large recruiting efforts. Well, this year, anticipating these problems, PwC did not actively seek to grow headcount, nor did they fire anyone, unlike the rest of the big 4 which overhired and is firing because of it. In short, PwC was the only firm not to have layoffs as they better foresaw the current economic situation and came out on the right side of numerous banking moves.
Tell this to my friends in US and Ukraine. Both were fired. ((
Anyone who says PwC has not laid off/fired anyone is WRONG. I was supposedly fired for bad perforance last week. I had a long history with the Firm and had ALWAYS received very good ratings. This year, my feedback was very positive (80% accomplished and 20% developing - no insufficient at all) and I delivered a major project for the firm but I somehow received a "less than expected" rating during the anual review process. More than 100 Advisory people and more than 45 in US IT also received their walking papers. THIS IS A FACT. I understand things are tight and the partners still want to make their mortgage payments on their beach homes but the way they handled it was dispicible. Just tell the people, "hey, your not connected and not playing the politics game so your gone." Don't make up a supposed reason to fire someone that is fabricated on the excuse of bad performance.
Good discussion about PwC here: http://goingconcern.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=20&search=pwc&searchsubmit.x=39&searchsubmit.y=16&searchsubmit=Search
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