Comp: What New Partners Don’t Know

Businessman sitting on scales with stack of coins in other trayBest Practices: Top firms use these seven systems for allocating income.

By Marc Rosenberg
The Rosenberg Practice Management Library

It would take a book much longer than this post to properly explain the finer points of partner compensation, especially how each of the major compensation systems works.

(Oh, did I forget? We wrote such a book, CPA Firm Partner Compensation: The Art and Science.)

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As is the case with all of my lists, no one firm incorporates all of these practices in its partner compensation policy.

But I have observed all of the practices below in one or more of the best firms I’ve worked with over 20 years.