Author: Taylor Warfield, Former Bain Manager and interviewer

Last Updated: August 28, 2026

 

The best ClearView office for most candidates is Boston, the firm's headquarters and largest team, though New York posts more open consulting roles and San Francisco offers the strongest West Coast biotech client exposure. This article compares all six ClearView Healthcare Partners locations on starting pay, hiring volume, hybrid requirements, internship access, and client mix so you can rank your office preferences with actual data instead of guesswork.

 

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Key Takeaways

 

ClearView Healthcare Partners runs six offices, and the right one for you comes down to whether you optimize for hiring odds, cost of living, or European client work.

 

• ClearView has six offices: Boston, New York, San Francisco, London, Zurich, and Gurgaon

 

• Boston is the headquarters and the deepest bench, though the office sits in Newton rather than downtown

 

• Starting salaries are identical across the three US offices, so cost of living decides your real pay

 

• New York led open consulting roles in August 2026 with 9, while Zurich had none

 

• Summer interns are placed only in San Francisco, New York, Boston, or London

 

• New hires spend 80% of their first nine months in the office, so your choice is not a formality

 

What Are All of ClearView's Office Locations?

 

ClearView Healthcare Partners operates six offices: Boston, New York, San Francisco, London, Zurich, and Gurgaon, India. The three US offices came first, London and Zurich opened together in July 2021, and Gurgaon is the newest addition. Project teams routinely combine people from more than one location.

 

Office	Address	Opened	Role in the firm
Boston	One Newton Place, 275 Washington Street, Newton, MA	2007	Headquarters, largest consultant bench, most corporate functions
New York	111 W 33rd Street, 9th Floor	Before 2021	Closest to large pharma clients and life sciences investors
San Francisco	575 Market Street, 12th Floor	Before 2021	Bay Area biotech, venture-backed startups, and diagnostics
London	Henry Wood House, Langham Place, 7th Floor	July 2021	European hub, EU market access and reimbursement work
Zurich	Talstrasse 83, 8001 Zurich	July 2021	Proximity to Swiss pharma headquarters, smallest footprint
Gurgaon	Atrium Place, Block C, Sector 19, Gurugram, Haryana	Newest office	Analytics, expert research, knowledge management, operations

 

Source: ClearView's office locations page and its July 2021 European expansion announcement.

 

One detail trips up almost every candidate. The "Boston" office is not in Boston, it is in Newton, a suburb several miles west of downtown, which changes your commute math considerably if you were picturing a Seaport tower.

 

Which ClearView Office Is the Best One to Join?

 

Boston is the best ClearView office for most candidates. It is the headquarters, it has the largest group of senior people, and it holds the highest concentration of firm leadership, training, and internal functions. At boutique consulting firms this size, proximity to decision makers matters far more than it does at a global firm of 30,000.

 

New York is the strongest alternative and arguably the better pick if you want investor work. The firm's investor support and private equity due diligence practice leans on New York, and several senior roles in that group are posted there exclusively.

 

San Francisco is the specialist choice. If you want early-stage biotech consulting exposure rather than big pharma portfolio work, the Bay Area client base is genuinely different from what you would see in Boston or New York.

 

Here's the honest caveat. ClearView staffs project teams across offices as a matter of routine, so your office determines your commute, your social circle, and your local leadership more than it determines the projects you work on.

 

Why Does Your ClearView Office Choice Matter More Than at Most Firms?

 

Your office choice matters because ClearView expects heavy in-person attendance, especially early on. Its job postings spell out the schedule: new hires are in the office 100% of the time during onboarding and training, 80% of the time through month nine, and 50% after that. Experienced consultants start at a 50% expectation and project team leads at roughly 40%.

 

Read that again if you skimmed it. For your first nine months, you are physically in one building four days out of five.

 

The application makes the stakes explicit. ClearView asks campus candidates to rank every office they are open to in order of preference, and it ties each location to specific start date options. Your interview invitation then names the single office you are being considered for.

 

That is unusual. Most firms let you sort out geography after the offer, and across the hundreds of candidates I have coached one-on-one, treating that ranking as a throwaway field is one of the most common unforced errors in ClearView's process.

 

Does ClearView Pay More in Some Offices Than Others?

 

No. ClearView lists one starting salary per US role and applies it identically to New York, Boston, and San Francisco. The table below shows the figures published on the firm's own job board in August 2026.

 

Role	Experience	Starting salary	Eligible offices
Life Sciences Senior Analyst	18 months or more	$110,000	NY, Boston, SF
Life Sciences Consultant, Pricing & Market Access	3 years or more	$130,000	NY, Boston, SF
Consulting Project Team Lead, Pricing & Market Access	5 to 7 years	$190,000	Boston, NY, SF

 

Source: starting salaries listed on ClearView's Greenhouse job board, August 2026. Each role carries a performance bonus on top of base.

 

This is the single most useful fact in the whole article, and almost nobody tells candidates about it. Because base pay does not flex by city, your office choice is effectively a cost of living decision, and San Francisco and New York are the two most expensive markets on the list.

 

Let's say a one-bedroom apartment runs you $2,200 a month in the Boston suburbs and $3,400 a month in San Francisco. On an identical $110,000 base, that gap alone is worth about $14,400 a year of after-tax spending power.

 

Glassdoor data supports the same picture from the employee side. As of June 2026, Glassdoor listed an average Analyst base of roughly $90,000 and an average Senior Analyst base of roughly $104,000 in Boston, with no meaningful premium showing up in the New York figures.

 

Which ClearView Offices Are Hiring the Most Right Now?

 

New York and Boston lead. I counted every consulting role on ClearView's public job board in August 2026 and found 20 open billable positions across 35 total openings. Many postings list two or three eligible offices, so the counts below add up to more than 20.

 

Office	Consulting roles	Exclusive postings	What that signals
New York	9	1	Broadest access to open seats across every practice
Boston	8	0	Hires into the shared US pool, plus most corporate roles
London	7	7	Runs an entirely separate hiring track from the US
San Francisco	6	0	Appears only on multi-office US postings
Gurgaon	4	4	Dedicated India roles in analytics, research, and delivery
Zurich	0	0	No open consulting roles at the time of this count

 

Two patterns are worth pulling out of that table. London and Gurgaon hire entirely on their own postings, which means applying there is a separate process rather than a backdoor into the firm. Boston and San Francisco never appear alone, so a US application is really an application to a shared pool with an office preference attached.

 

Zurich is the one to think hard about. Zero open consulting roles does not mean the office is closing, but a location that is not actively hiring gives you fewer peers at your level and a thinner internal network.

 

Job board counts move week to week, so treat these as a snapshot rather than a permanent ranking. Check the board yourself before you finalize your list, the same way you would track a consulting recruiting timeline for application deadlines.

 

Which ClearView Office Is Best for Interns and Undergraduates?

 

Only four offices host summer interns: San Francisco, New York City, Boston, and London. ClearView's 9-week summer internship program is closed to Zurich and Gurgaon, so if an internship is your goal, two of the six locations are off the table before you start.

 

Boston is the strongest intern office of the four. The headquarters holds the most managers available to serve as intern coaches, and ClearView pairs every intern with both a manager coach and a peer buddy at a similar career stage.

 

Interns contribute to live client work from the first week rather than sitting on a side project. That matters for return-offer conversion, which is still the most reliable on-ramp to a healthcare consulting career path.

 

Every new hire also goes through a case-based training week in their first days, including mock physician calls and a final presentation to a mock client. If you want to walk in already comfortable with that format, my case interview course covers the structuring and math habits that training week assumes you have.

 

How Do the London, Zurich, and Gurgaon Offices Compare?

 

London is the clear winner among the three non-US offices. It has 7 open consulting roles, its own recruiting track, dedicated HR support, and it hosts summer interns. London also anchors ClearView's European pricing and market access work, which is one of the firm's strongest practices.

 

Zurich is the hardest office to recommend to an early career candidate. It opened alongside London in July 2021 and sits close to major Swiss pharma headquarters, but it has the smallest footprint of any location and was posting no consulting roles as of August 2026.

 

Gurgaon is a genuine growth story rather than a support office. Its openings include consultants, senior analysts, data analysts in advanced analytics, cloud security engineers, and knowledge management staff, which is the profile of an office building real capability.

 

Now the part nobody puts in a recruiting brochure. ClearView's client base skews heavily toward US pharma and biotech, and European staff report working US hours to stay aligned with client teams, which regularly means evening calls that run late into the night.

 

Factor that in honestly before you rank London or Zurich first for lifestyle reasons. A European address does not buy you European hours at a firm whose clients are mostly in Boston, New Jersey, and California.

 

Which ClearView Office Is Best for You?

 

There are five distinct profiles here, and the right answer changes completely depending on which one describes you.

 

• Best overall: Boston, for headquarters access, the deepest bench of senior mentors, and the lowest cost of living among the three US offices

 

• Best for hiring odds: New York, which appeared on the most open consulting postings and holds the one US role posted to a single office

 

• Best for biotech and venture clients: San Francisco, where the client mix leans toward early-stage companies and diagnostics rather than large pharma portfolios

 

• Best outside the US: London, the only non-US office that hires at volume, runs its own recruiting track, and takes summer interns

 

• Best for a career in India: Gurgaon, which is adding consulting, analytics, and technical roles rather than serving purely as back-office support

 

Zurich is the only office I would not put on a shortlist for a first job in life sciences consulting. Small office, no visible hiring, and the same US hours problem London has, without London's scale to offset it.

 

How Should You Rank Your ClearView Office Preferences?

 

ClearView asks you to rank offices in the application itself, so the decision arrives earlier than you expect. Here's how to approach it.

 

Tip #1: Rank every office you would genuinely accept

 

Listing only one office narrows you to that office's headcount. Since most US consulting postings cover Boston, New York, and San Francisco together, ranking all three keeps you eligible for every seat in the pool.

 

Only leave an office off if you would decline an offer there. A dishonest ranking wastes an interview slot and burns goodwill with a small recruiting team.

 

Tip #2: Check the start dates attached to each location

 

ClearView ties specific start date options to each office in its campus postings. If you need a September start because of a thesis defense or a visa timeline, that constraint may quietly rule out an office you ranked first.

 

Read the start date list before you rank, not after.

 

Tip #3: Run the cost of living math on identical pay

 

Since ClearView does not adjust base salary by city, the office you choose changes your effective compensation by thousands of dollars a year. Build a simple budget for each city using real rent listings before you rank them.

 

Boston wins this comparison for most candidates, and the Newton location puts you near suburban rents rather than downtown ones.

 

Tip #4: Talk to someone in the office you want

 

Local culture varies more at a 550-person firm than at a global one, because a single office's leadership sets the tone for everyone in it. In my years at Bain, two offices of the same firm could feel like different employers, and that gap only widens as headcount shrinks.

 

A 20-minute coffee chat with a current analyst tells you more about hours and staffing than any review site will. Ask specifically about evening call load and how often they are staffed with people outside their office.

 

Tip #5: Weight the office you will spend four days a week in

 

The 80% in office expectation through month nine means your commute is a daily fact, not an occasional one. Map the actual door-to-door time from neighborhoods you could afford on the starting salary for your level.

 

Candidates who skip this step are the ones who ask about transferring six months in.

 

Tip #6: Do not let office choice distract you from interview prep

 

The ClearView case interview is identical in every location, and it is what actually decides whether you get an offer. Office preference is a tiebreaker on a form, not a lever that improves your odds of passing.

 

Spend your time on structuring life sciences cases and on the case interview math that shows up in every round. Choosing the best ClearView office only matters once you have an offer in hand, so treat the ranking as a 30-minute decision and put the rest of your energy into the case and fit rounds that get you there.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

 

Where is ClearView Healthcare Partners headquartered?

 

ClearView Healthcare Partners is headquartered at One Newton Place, 275 Washington Street, in Newton, Massachusetts. The firm markets this as its Boston office, but it sits in a suburb west of downtown Boston rather than in the city center. Boston is the original office, opened when the firm was founded in 2007, and it houses the largest concentration of consultants and support staff.

 

Does ClearView pay the same salary in every US office?

 

Yes. ClearView lists a single starting salary for each US role regardless of office. As of August 2026, its job board showed $110,000 for a Life Sciences Senior Analyst, $130,000 for a Life Sciences Consultant in pricing and market access, and $190,000 for a Consulting Project Team Lead, each applying equally to New York, Boston, and San Francisco.

 

Which ClearView office hires the most consultants?

 

New York and Boston appear on the most consulting job postings. In August 2026, New York was listed on 9 of the 20 open consulting roles and Boston on 8, followed by London with 7 and San Francisco with 6. Zurich had no open consulting roles at that time.

 

Can you intern at any ClearView office?

 

No. ClearView places summer interns in San Francisco, New York City, Boston, or London only. The Zurich and Gurgaon offices are not part of the 9-week summer internship program, so undergraduates and master's students who want an internship must target one of the four eligible cities.

 

How many days a week do ClearView consultants work in the office?

 

It depends on tenure. New hires are in the office full time during onboarding, then 80% of the time through month nine, then 50% after that. Experienced consultants join at a 50% expectation and project team leads at roughly 40%.

 

Is it easier to get into a smaller ClearView office?

 

Not reliably. Smaller offices post fewer roles, so the raw number of seats is lower even if the applicant pool is thinner. London and Gurgaon run their own dedicated postings, which makes them a separate path rather than an easier one, while Boston, New York, and San Francisco share most US postings.

 

Can you transfer between ClearView offices?

 

Internal moves happen, but you should choose an office you would be content in for at least two years. ClearView staffs project teams across offices as a matter of course, so you can work with colleagues in other locations without relocating. That cross-office staffing model reduces the practical need to transfer.

 

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