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Eastern Europe Consulting Market HR Stats
2025 to 2026
Key HR indicators for the consulting industry
This collection of consulting market briefs highlights key HR statistics across four countries in the Eastern Europe region: Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Romania. It offers insights into various key factors, such as the highest paying lines of businesses, market growth, starting salaries, career progression, and market pay level over the last year.
Notable highlights across Eastern Europe
- The year-on-year market headcount increase across these four countries ranged from 2% to 3%, with “Risk Advisory Services” and “Energy, Environment, Sustainability Consulting” among the lines of business recording the strongest growth across the region.
- The average time required to progress from analyst level to partner level ranged from 25 to 27.5 years, with Poland having the fastest track.
- “IT Architecture” and “IT Transformation” featured among the highest-paid lines of business across the countries, alongside “Operations Consulting” and “Business & Digital Advisory”.
- The median bonus achieved across lines of business and career levels was highest in the Czech Republic at 15%, followed by Poland and Romania at 11%, and Hungary at 8%.
The sheets also present median salaries for Vencon Research career levels as percentages of basic salaries paid in the United States. Among the four countries, consultants in the Czech Republic had the highest relative salaries, ranging from 33% to 61% of US levels from analyst to principal, while those in Hungary had the lowest, ranging from 25% to 35%.
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