Thousands of dollars is.. not that much. When I was a junior strategy consultant they charged 175 dollars per hour of my work. And the company managed to find

Thousands of dollars is.. not that much. When I was a junior strategy consultant they charged 175 dollars per hour of my work. And the company managed to find clients who paid for days of such work, sometimes even with overtime. As much as I like to think of myself as a smart person, the decks that I made were solid but in my opinion nothing special, nothing really groundbreaking. Just standard strategy decks, based on "research" (google), internal analysis (data pulled from ass) or statistical model (excel with lots of assumptions). I also doubt they pushed anyone anywhere apart from making some sales. On a side note, the rates for tax consultants were generally lower, for example a partner charged 500 per hour, but they usually couldnt charge the client for more than few hours. So I could imagine those microsoft guys charing something like 2000 per hour, or rather something like 15 000 per day (because it sounds much better) for someone who is actually critically needed. Or maybe those guys think that others are ones charging high rates because the grass is greener on the other side (Obviously you would take maybe 15% of your hourly rate...) tbh sometimes I think the most important skill for any consultant is being able to find people who will pay for your services, anything else is secondary