A delighted consultant holds a framed Senior Consultant certificate amid confetti and applauding colleagues. The certificate reads Twice the Experience, Twice the Payroll, Bigger Opportunities. A cake in front of him is iced Same Consultant. Higher Billing.

Congratulations! You're Senior Now

Twice the Experience. Twice the Payroll.

Same desk, same client, same work, new word in the email signature. The salary went up, and so did the number attached to you on the bench, which is the part the cake declines to mention.

It isn't a pay rise. It's a recognition of your trajectory.