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L.E.K. Consulting Salary: Base Pay by Level (2026)
L.E.K. Consulting pays a Consultant a $185,000 base salary, an Associate Consultant $135,000 and a Manager $241,500 in US H-1B filings, level by level.
L.E.K. Consulting pays a Consultant a base salary of $185,000 in US H-1B filings from January 2025 to June 2026: 26 of 30 Consultant filings name exactly $185,000, across 6 US cities. Associate Consultants are filed at $135,000, Life Sciences Specialists at $152,500 and Managers and Engagement Managers at $241,500. L.E.K.'s careers page offers its summer Associate role to undergraduates and its summer Consultant role to MBA students, and hires PhDs and MDs as Life Sciences Specialists.
Where the numbers come from. Base salaries are from 30 Consultant and other public US Department of Labor filings by LEK Consulting LLC, worked out in code. H-1B filings show base salary only: no bonus, signing bonus, profit sharing or benefits. Role descriptions come from L.E.K.'s own roles page.
Base salary by level
Median base salary in L.E.K.'s US H-1B filings, January 2025 to June 2026. Range is the 10th to 90th percentile of the filed salaries.
| Level | Filings | Median base | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Associate Consultant | 3 | $135,000 | $135,000 |
| Consultant | 30 | $185,000 | $185K to $200K |
| Life Sciences Specialist | 10 | $152,500 | $152,500 |
| Manager or Engagement Manager | 9 | $241,500 | $242K to $500K |
Like McKinsey and BCG, L.E.K. mostly files one salary per level. Every Life Sciences Specialist filing names $152,500. One Engagement Manager filing in San Francisco names $500,000, which stretches the Manager range: 7 of the 9 Manager and Engagement Manager filings name exactly $241,500.
Life Sciences Specialists
L.E.K.'s roles page offers PhDs and MDs a Life Sciences Specialist role with a fast track to Consultant. In the filings that role pays $152,500, against $185,000 for a Consultant.
L.E.K. against McKinsey, BCG and Bain
An L.E.K. Consultant's $185,000 compares with $192,000 for a McKinsey Associate, $190,000 for a BCG Consultant and $192,000 for a Bain Consultant, the levels those firms hire MBAs into. Full tables: McKinsey salary, BCG salary, Bain salary and management consultant salary.
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: 52 across the rows shown, one per DOL case number.
- Job titles matched:
- Associate Consultant: "Associate Consultant" (3)
- Consultant: "Consultant" (30)
- Life Sciences Specialist: "Life Sciences Specialist, Life Science Specialist" (10)
- Manager or Engagement Manager: "Engagement Manager, Manager" (9)
- 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.
- Left out for too few filings (under 3): Senior Associate Consultant, Senior Manager.
- L.E.K. files under LEK Consulting LLC. "Life Science Specialist" and "Life Sciences Specialist" are counted together, as are "Manager" and "Engagement Manager", which have the same median.
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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
- L.E.K. Consulting, Roles at L.E.K., read October 25, 2026
Frequently asked questions
How much does an L.E.K. Consultant make?
A $185,000 base salary in 26 of 30 Consultant filings from January 2025 to June 2026, the rest a little higher.
How much does an L.E.K. Associate Consultant make?
The 3 Associate Consultant filings all name $135,000.
How much does an L.E.K. Life Sciences Specialist make?
Every Life Sciences Specialist filing names $152,500. L.E.K. hires PhDs and MDs into the role, with a fast track to Consultant.
How much does an L.E.K. Manager make?
7 of 9 Manager and Engagement Manager filings name $241,500.
Does L.E.K. pay as much as McKinsey, BCG and Bain?
Close on base. A Consultant is filed at $185,000, against $190,000 to $192,000 for the MBA hire level at the three largest strategy firms.
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