Alvarez & Marsal Salary: Base Pay by Level (2026)

Alvarez & Marsal pays an Associate a median base salary of $111,000, a Senior Associate $150,000 and a Manager $175,000 in US H-1B filings from January 2025 to June 2026, across its advisory and performance improvement groups. Directors are filed at $197,313 and Senior Directors at $222,500. A&M's campus recruiting page says its Associate roles are for undergraduates and some master's students and its Manager roles suit MBA students. A&M Tax pays less at each level, from $85,000 for a Tax Associate.

Where the numbers come from. Base salaries are from public US Department of Labor filings by the Alvarez & Marsal group companies, worked out in code. H-1B filings show base salary only: no bonus, signing bonus, profit sharing or benefits. Entry roles come from A&M's own campus recruiting page.

Base salary by level

Median base salary in A&M's US H-1B filings outside tax, January 2025 to June 2026. Range is the 10th to 90th percentile of the filed salaries.

Level	Filings	Median base	Range
Analyst	4	$90,000	$85K to $100K
Associate	21	$111,000	$95K to $133K
Senior Associate	28	$150,000	$110K to $170K
Manager	34	$175,000	$140K to $195K
Director	11	$197,313	$160K to $210K
Senior Director	6	$222,500	$210K to $256K

10 of 34 Manager filings name exactly $175,000, and 28 Senior Associate filings have a median of $150,000, most of them from 2026.

Managers by group

A&M files under a separate company for each group. The three groups with the most Manager filings:

Group	Filings	Median base	Range
Consumer and Retail Group	19	$185,000	$175K to $195K
Private Equity Performance Improvement	7	$175,000	$160K to $178K
Corporate Performance Improvement	5	$181,280	$132K to $185K

A&M Tax

Alvarez & Marsal Tax LLC files the same titles at lower pay:

Level	Filings	Median base	Range
Tax Associate	7	$85,000	$77K to $131K
Tax Senior Associate	8	$96,425	$93K to $144K
Tax Director	4	$140,000	$140K to $189K

Associate and Manager hires

A&M's campus recruiting page says Manager roles are suited for MBA students and Associate roles are for undergraduates and some master's students. In the filings, that is the step from $111,000 to $175,000.

How we got these numbers

US employers that hire someone on an H-1B visa must first file a Labor Condition Application with the US Department of Labor, stating the job title, work site and the wage they will pay. The DOL publishes every filing in its LCA disclosure data. We read the filings through h1bdata.info, a free search of that data, because the DOL's own quarterly files run to hundreds of MB. We read them on October 25, 2026.

Filing window: filings submitted from January 2025 to June 2026, the latest the DOL has published.
Filings counted: 154 across the rows shown, one per DOL case number.
Job titles matched:
- Analyst: "Analyst" (4)
- Associate: "Associate" (21)
- Senior Associate: "Senior Associate, Sr. Associate" (28)
- Manager: "Manager" (34)
- Director: "Director" (11)
- Senior Director: "Senior Director" (6)
- Consumer and Retail Group: "Manager (Alvarez & Marsal Consumer and Retail Group LLC)" (19)
- Private Equity Performance Improvement: "Manager (Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement Group LLC)" (7)
- Corporate Performance Improvement: "Manager (Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Performance Improvement LLC)" (5)
- Tax Associate: "Associate (Alvarez & Marsal Tax LLC)" (7)
- Tax Senior Associate: "Senior Associate (Alvarez & Marsal Tax LLC)" (8)
- Tax Director: "Director (Alvarez & Marsal Tax LLC)" (4)
Median: the middle filed salary for that title. Range: the 10th to 90th percentile, so a few unusual filings don't stretch it.
Base salary only. An H-1B filing states the base wage. Bonuses, signing bonuses, profit sharing and benefits are not in it.
Who is in it. Only roles filed for visa holders, at every US office. A filing is the wage the employer committed to pay, not proof of a hire.
A&M files under a separate company for each group, such as Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Performance Improvement LLC and Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement Group LLC. The main table counts all of them except Alvarez & Marsal Tax LLC, shown on its own, and Alvarez & Marsal Holdings LLC, whose filings are for roles such as marketing and recruiting. "Senior Associate" and "Sr. Associate" are counted together. Titles with a specialty added are left out.

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Sources

US Department of Labor, H-1B LCA disclosure data, filings submitted January 2025 to June 2026, via h1bdata.info, read October 25, 2026
Alvarez & Marsal, Campus recruiting: advanced degrees, read October 25, 2026

Frequently asked questions

How much does an Alvarez & Marsal Associate make?

The median Associate filing is $111,000, with most between $95,000 and $132,500. A Senior Associate is filed at $150,000.

How much does an Alvarez & Marsal Manager make?

A median of $175,000 across 34 filings. A&M's campus recruiting page says its Manager roles suit MBA students.

How much does an Alvarez & Marsal Director make?

The median Director filing is $197,313 and the median Senior Director filing $222,500.

Does A&M Tax pay less?

Yes, at each level in the filings: $85,000 for a Tax Associate against $111,000 for an Associate in the other groups, and $140,000 for a Tax Director against $197,313.