Best Consulting Firms to Work For
Which firms fare best on these individual rankings of key employment factors?
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2025 Best Consulting Firms for Compensation
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is the second largest consulting firm by revenue and consistently ranks high in our top consulting firms. The firm’s diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise to organizations, helping them to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact. Purpose-driven, the firm strives to drive lasting impact for its employees, clients, and society. "You will be challenged... and rewarded," say insiders.
SCORE 9.642
2024 Ranking
#3
ghSMART
Boards, CEOs and investors seek ghSMART’s advice for their most high-stake leadership challenges. And often, ghSMART’s clients see them as the most influential professional relationships they have. Those who aspire to be trusted advisors who have a background in management consulting, private equity, and organizational psychology should take a closer look at ghSMART.
SCORE 9.594
2024 Ranking
#1
Bain & Company
Arguably the most employee-focused of the Big 3 strategy players, Bain is a name that will open doors for the rest of your career. That’s if you’re interested in leaving, of course: The firm invests a lot of time and energy in training and development. Couple that with a glittering client roster and top-of-the-market compensation, and it’s easy to make a case for staying at Bain for the long term.
SCORE 9.375
2024 Ranking
#2
Cirque Analytics
Cirque Analytics is an economic and statistical consulting firm that specializes in empowering individuals and businesses navigate the complex world of litigation and regulatory actions. Its staff provides expert testimony and analysis that shifts the balance of major legal cases in antitrust, intellectual property, labor, employment, commercial disputes, and other areas. The firm has offices in Irvine, CA; Jackson Hole, WY; Los Angeles, CA; and Washington, DC.
SCORE 9.281
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Aminad Consulting
Aminad is a boutique management consulting firm dedicated to generating realistic and implementable change. The firm works with federal agencies, with a specific focus on the Department of Defense. Aminad (pronounced ah-min-odd) is a portmanteau that that firm says “represents determination, generosity, and kindness.”
SCORE 9.280
2024 Ranking
#4
Putnam
Beyond Putnam's commitment and expertise to revolutionizing life sciences consulting is a determination to “bring out the best in each other.” Putnam’s commitment to development makes it a great choice for anybody looking to acquire practical knowledge of the industry by training alongside an enthusiastic team of like-minded professionals while delivering exceptional value to clients.
SCORE 9.246
2024 Ranking
#9
Cornerstone Research
Cornerstone Research occupies a specialized niche in the consulting world: a firm that provides economic and financial analysis specifically for law firm clients and government agencies. As a Cornerstone Research consultant, you will support expert testimony in commercial litigation and regulatory proceedings. The wide variety of these matters allows consultants to work closely with academic and industry experts in diverse fields. Working at the intersection of the legal and consulting worlds makes Cornerstone Research an exciting, enriching opportunity.
SCORE 9.000
2024 Ranking
#7
Roland Berger
As the first consultancy native to Europe to expand internationally, Roland Berger’s identity is deeply entwined with the concept of global community. The firm operates on the idea that businesses must focus on the long play: sustainable economic, environmental, and social change on a global scale instead. Jobseekers who lead with heart and future-forward priorities should seek out a firm working actively to bring meaning to the consulting industry.
SCORE 8.864
2024 Ranking
#15
Alvarez & Marsal
A&M provides global leadership, problem-solving, and value creation for companies across industries and around the world. The firm’s consultants work as advisers, interim leaders, and partners who tell clients what they need to know, not always what they want to hear. The firm is focused on practical, action-oriented advice for its clients, rather than theoretical.
SCORE 8.801
2024 Ranking
#5
Analysis Group
As a hub for economic, litigation, and health care consulting specialists, Analysis Group is a rare creature in the consulting world: a firm that is all but immune to the vagaries of the business cycle. As long as there is a need to estimate economic losses and damages and conduct statistical analyses (among other things), there will be a demand for Analysis Group’s services. As a result, it maintains a very stable employee base and recruits at all levels of educational attainment, from those fresh out of undergrad to Ph.D. holders—provided, of course, that you have the analytical chops to cut it!
SCORE 8.705
2024 Ranking
#13
Bates White Economic Consulting
With a strong reputation in economic and litigation consulting, Bates White is almost immune from the vagaries of the business cycle—a fact that has stood it in good stead over the past few years. Among consultants, the word most often used to describe the firm is “academic”—something that connotes both the type of work it does, and the fact that many of its senior employees are recruited directly out of PhD programs at top colleges. Known for training and development, this is a firm that will appeal to anyone seeking a top-tier economic consulting career.
SCORE 8.701
2024 Ranking
#11
SciVida
SciVida is a boutique management consulting firm that focuses exclusively on life sciences. Headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC, the company combines deep industry and functional area knowledge with specialized expertise in market assessment, analytics, and strategy development to provide life science organizations services across brand and portfolio strategy, pricing and market access strategy, business development and medical affairs.
SCORE 8.667
2024 Ranking
#12
Stax
Stax is a global strategy consulting firm specializing in commercial due diligence, value creation, and exit planning for private equity firms, PE-backed companies, hedge funds, and investment banks across a broad range of industries. The firm partners with clients to provide data-driven, actionable insights designed to drive growth, enhance profits, increase value, and make better investment decisions.
SCORE 8.660
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
DayBlink Consulting
DayBlink Consulting provides cybersecurity, cloud, applied automation, and strategic execution and operations consulting to Fortune 500 companies, fast-start advisory services to early-stage startups, and pro bono consulting to nonprofits. The firm's diverse team of consultants provide insights and resources to help business leaders overcome challenges, attain quick wins, and produce sustainable growth. The firm offers competitive salary and benefits, along with a commitment to maintaining a healthy work-life balance that insiders note it follows through on.
SCORE 8.577
2024 Ranking
#6
Iberia Advisory
Iberia Advisory helps federal agencies deliver superior outcomes for the American public. Based in Washington, DC, this consultancy specializes in financial and strategic management, ranging from audit support and remediation to internal controls and enterprise risk management, from budget planning and execution to data strategy and governance.
SCORE 8.455
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Kearney
Kearney—one of the original global management consulting firms—has long specialized in operations and supports clients through large transformations. The firm works with more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500, as well as governmental and nonprofit organizations. A solidly midsize firm with a strong international reputation, Kearney is poised to offer consultants the best of both worlds: the flexibility and opportunities for exposure of a boutique supported by the infrastructure of a much larger firm. The result is a great balance of collaboration and independence—the benefits of scale with the ability to individualize.
SCORE 8.393
2024 Ranking
#8
Chartis
Chartis is a comprehensive healthcare advisory firm dedicated to helping clients create a healthcare system that works better for everyone. The firm works across the healthcare continuum serving more than 900 clients annually. In 2024, it received a majority investment from private equity firm Blackstone.
SCORE 8.387
2024 Ranking
#17
The Cambridge Group, LLC
The Cambridge Group is a boutique strategy consulting firm that helps clients identify profitable new growth opportunities, optimize portfolios of products or services, unearth breakthrough innovation, reinvent categories, enhance brand equity, and optimize pricing. Services include mergers and acquisitions, corporate and business unit strategy, go-to-market activation, digital strategy, marketing strategy, innovation and design and pricing and promotion.
SCORE 8.333
2024 Ranking
#10
OC&C Strategy Consultants
OC&C Strategy Consultants is an international consulting firm that advises management of major multinational corporations and leading national companies. OC&C also supports world-renowned private equity firms in areas including potential investment scoping, vendor and buyer due diligence, and post-acquisition strategy. The firm brings a deep knowledge of its focus sectors and underlying demand drivers to their work with clients.
SCORE 8.149
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
The Brattle Group
The Brattle group is an economic consulting firm that answers complex economic, regulatory, and financial questions for corporations, law firms, and governments around the world. Built on a foundation of respect, performance, collaboration, and integrity, its consultants bring high-quality expertise to high-profile projects.
SCORE 8.077
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
NERA Economic Consulting
NERA provides economic advice, analysis, expert testimony, and regulatory insight for global clients in North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. The firm has been advising government authorities and the world’s leading law firms and corporations for over half a century, bringing academic analysis and rigor, objectivity, and real-world industry experience to bear on issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation.
SCORE 8.067
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Clarkston Consulting
Clarkston Consulting has focused on the consumer products, retail, and life sciences industries for over 30 years. Reflecting this targeted approach, the firm has never pursued aggressive expansion, instead applying energy to the careful cultivation of its client base.
SCORE 8.000
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Epsilon Economics and Epsilon Life Sciences
Epsilon Economics and Life Sciences provides specialist economics, litigation and governance services, with a strong focus on the life sciences sector. The firm currently operates two separate but connected consulting units in economics and life sciences.
SCORE 8.000
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
ScottMadden, Inc.
ScottMadden is a generalist boutique with deep expertise in the Energy and Corporate and Shared Services sectors. The result is a combination of strategic focus and a diversified approach to consulting across a range of capabilities and services—perfect for jobseekers searching for the unique benefits of working at a smaller firm while still leveraging a wide array of skillsets and experiences. If the prospect of working ‘on the ground’ with your clients excites you, then ScottMadden might be a fit.
SCORE 7.951
2024 Ranking
#19
Avasant LLC
Avasant is a management consulting firm offering a comprehensive suite of services—including digital transformation, IT price benchmarking, intelligent automation, cutting-edge research and data insights, and governance and strategy. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Avasant maintains a global presence with offices in Washington, DC; Trinidad and Tobago; Mexico; Spain; Europe; Dubai; and India.
SCORE 7.833
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
