Originally Posted by
crewdawg
I know a few Wharton/Booth/Kellogg graduates, one of them being a current DAL captain who worked for one of the top consulting firms while on furlough. They all seem to spend more time in hotels and on airliners than we do. The Captain I referred to said it boiled down to the $$$$ vs time off that brought him back to DAL.
Hey crewdawg, your friend must have been a management consultant. Those guys travel as much as airline pilots. I was in private equity, we didn't travel that much but our days at the office were very long. 7am- midnight, every day including Saturday's. We did get a free limo ride home every night and free meals. Senior guys in management consulting and private equity make $2-3 million a year easily but I don't want that lifestyle. You are literally always at work.
By senior I mean 10 years in the business..Guys who have been in private equity longer earn much much more, especially at a place like Blackstone..Management Consultants top out at about $2-3 million and then become C-level executives at the Fortune 500 companies..That seems to be the trend.