Associate Salary in Chennai (Updated 2025)

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Everything here is average in terms of work culture, work life balance, salary and benefits, promotions, learning and development and work satisfaction. It depends on the manager under which you are working and the team you are a part of. (Auditing domain perspective)

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Work life balance in Audit is not available. Salaries and appraisals not upto the mark.

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As a fresher there’s a lot to learn and seniors do help us.

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Sometimes it does get a bit hectic. Also the pay is bit low then industry standards but as a fresher it’s a good stepping stone to build your initial career from here.

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Salary is decent compared to industry average. Also, You don’t need to worry about the job security unless you are really bad. Work life balance depends on which line of business and what team are you working.

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Promotions are too slow compared to your peers in US or UK. A person will stay as an Analyst or Associate for years and your peer will become a Vice President or even an Executive Director within the same timelines. Your promotions are hardly based on your performance and mostly based on how much good relationship you have with your manager and how much the management has endorsed you as a brand.

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If you have skill required for the project you can stay as long as you want and your manager will always stand for you,

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Company not care about their employee now a day, giving very less anual bonus which is around 4% and even promotional increment is also 10%, once you on bench and decline more than three project offer due to night shift or due to location you will get hr show cause mail which may terminate if not provide proper justification, also they did not compensate me for relocation for the project.