Author: Taylor Warfield, Former Bain Manager and interviewer

Last Updated: September 2, 2026

 

ClearView salary at ClearView Healthcare Partners starts at $92,500 base for entry-level Analysts, runs $125,000 to $170,000 for Consultants and Senior Consultants, and reaches $190,000 to $230,000 at the Engagement Manager and Associate Principal levels. This guide breaks down base pay at every level using ClearView's own posted salaries and US Department of Labor filings, then compares those numbers to MBB and to the other life sciences boutiques.

 

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Key Takeaways

 

ClearView Healthcare Partners pays $92,500 base to entry-level Analysts and up to $230,000 base at the Associate Principal level, with a discretionary annual performance bonus on top at every rung.

 

• Analyst base is $92,500 and does not change between the Boston, New York, and San Francisco offices

 

• Advanced degree hires start near $130,000 as Consultants, with recent filings running as high as $143,000

 

• Engagement Managers earn $170,000 to $200,000 base, and Associate Principals have been filed at $220,000 to $230,000

 

• The MBB gap is real: roughly $20,000 at undergraduate entry and roughly $60,000 at advanced degree entry

 

• Pay has climbed fast, with the median filed base rising from $90,000 in 2020 to $132,500 in 2025

 

• Interns earn $37.50 per hour over a 9-week summer program, or roughly $13,500 in total

 

How Much Does ClearView Healthcare Partners Pay?

 

ClearView Healthcare Partners pays a base salary of $92,500 for entry-level Analysts, $125,000 to $143,000 for Consultants, $160,000 to $170,000 for Senior Consultants, and $170,000 to $200,000 for Engagement Managers. Associate Principals have been filed at $220,000 to $230,000. Every level also receives a discretionary annual performance bonus.

 

Those figures come from two sources that are hard to argue with: the salaries ClearView publishes on its own job postings, and the base salaries the firm files with the US Department of Labor when it sponsors visas. Aggregator estimates on salary comparison sites swing wildly for a firm this size. The filed numbers do not.

 

Level	Who enters here	Base salary	Source
Summer Analyst Intern	Undergraduate or master's student	$37.50 per hour	ClearView posting
Analyst	Bachelor's or master's in life sciences	$92,500	ClearView posting
Senior Analyst	Analysts with 18 months of experience	$110,000 to $125,000	Labor Dept. filings
Consultant	PhD, MD, MBA, or promoted Senior Analyst	$125,000 to $143,000	Both
Senior Consultant	Advanced degree plus two years of consulting	$160,000 to $170,000	Both
Engagement Manager	Promoted Senior Consultants	$170,000 to $200,000	Both
Associate Principal	Promoted Engagement Managers	$220,000 to $230,000	Labor Dept. filings

 

Sources: ClearView Healthcare Partners job postings for Summer 2026 and Summer 2027 start dates, and 2023 to 2025 H-1B Labor Condition Applications filed with the US Department of Labor. Base salary only, before bonus.

 

ClearView runs a seven-step ladder: Analyst, Senior Analyst, Consultant, Senior Consultant, Engagement Manager, Associate Principal, and then leadership roles such as Principal and Managing Director. The firm publishes the qualifications for each rung on its careers site. Knowing which rung an offer maps to matters more than the title on the letter, because ClearView uses several title variants for the same pay band.

 

Has ClearView pay increased in recent years?

 

Yes, and sharply. The median base salary ClearView filed with the Department of Labor climbed from $90,000 in 2020 to $132,500 in 2025, an increase of roughly 47% in five years.

 

Filing year	Median filed base	Filings
2020	$90,000	23
2021	$115,000	21
2022	$120,000	15
2023	$125,000	18
2024	$125,000	19
2025	$132,500	20

 

Read that trend with one caveat. The mix of roles ClearView sponsors shifts year to year, and a heavier share of senior filings pushes the median up on its own. The direction is still clear, and it matches what candidates I have coached report about raises at the firm.

 

What Is the Starting Salary at ClearView Healthcare Partners?

 

The starting salary at ClearView Healthcare Partners is $92,500 for a first-year Analyst. ClearView states this figure directly on its Life Sciences Strategy Analyst postings for both Summer 2026 and Summer 2027 start dates, alongside a discretionary annual performance bonus and a benefits package.

 

Here is the detail almost nobody flags: that $92,500 is identical whether you rank Boston, New York, or San Francisco as your preferred office. Most firms adjust entry pay for cost of living. ClearView does not, which quietly makes the Boston headquarters the strongest offer of the three in real terms.

 

The Department of Labor filings line up. ClearView filed Analyst base salaries of $95,000 in New York and Newton and $99,715 in San Francisco during 2025, slightly above the campus offer, which likely reflects Analysts already a year or two into the role. In London, the same entry posting shows a range of £32,000 to £42,000 on Glassdoor.

 

How much do ClearView interns get paid?

 

ClearView pays Summer Analyst interns $37.50 per hour for a 9-week program at up to 40 hours per week. That works out to roughly $13,500 across the summer before any housing or relocation support. The internship is the firm's main funnel into full-time Analyst roles, so the return offer is worth far more than the hourly rate.

 

That rate is competitive against the broader consulting intern salary range, though it sits below what generalist strategy firms pay their summer classes. ClearView's internship applications open in July for US students and September for UK students.

 

How Much Do ClearView Consultants and Senior Consultants Make?

 

ClearView Consultants earn a base salary of $125,000 to $143,000, and Senior Consultants earn $160,000 to $170,000. The Consultant level is where PhDs, MDs, and MBAs enter the firm directly, which is why ClearView recruits so heavily from graduate programs and postdocs.

 

A live ClearView posting for a Life Sciences Consultant in Pricing & Market Access lists a starting salary of $130,000 across the New York, Boston, and San Francisco offices, plus a performance bonus. Labor Department filings from 2024 and 2025 show Consultant base salaries of $125,000, $133,000, $135,000, and $143,000. The spread reflects tenure inside the level rather than office location.

 

At Senior Consultant, ClearView has posted a starting salary of $160,000 for its Investor pillar and filed a Senior Consultant in New York at $170,000 in 2025. Glassdoor's modeled estimate puts Senior Consultant median total pay at $159,824 as of mid-2026, which lands close to the filed base and suggests bonuses at this level are modest rather than transformative.

 

One structural point in ClearView's favor: the firm promotes strong Senior Analysts into the Consultant role without requiring an advanced degree. For an undergraduate hire, that is a path from $92,500 to $130,000 in about three to four years without leaving for a PhD or MBA.

 

How Much Do ClearView Engagement Managers and Associate Principals Earn?

 

ClearView Engagement Managers earn $170,000 to $200,000 in base salary, and Associate Principals have been filed at $220,000 to $230,000. This is where the compensation curve at ClearView gets genuinely steep and where the firm starts closing its gap with larger competitors.

 

ClearView posted a starting salary of $190,000 for a project team lead role in its Corporate Strategy practice. Labor Department filings across 2024 and 2025 show Engagement Manager base salaries of $170,000, $185,000, $190,000, and $200,000 depending on practice area, with the advanced analytics and data roles clustering at the lower end. Glassdoor's modeled median total pay for the level is $226,920, implying a meaningful bonus once you reach project ownership.

 

Associate Principal is the highest level with reliable public data. ClearView filed an Associate Principal in New York at $220,000 in 2022 and $230,000 in 2024. Above that sit Principals, Managing Directors, and Partners, and ClearView discloses nothing about their pay.

 

I would treat any specific Partner number you see online for this firm as invented. What you can reasonably assume is that leadership compensation shifts heavily toward performance and business development, the same structure used across top boutique consulting firms.

 

How Do Bonuses and Benefits Work at ClearView?

 

ClearView pays a discretionary annual performance bonus at every level, on top of base salary and a benefits package. The firm does not publish a bonus target or a percentage band, which is the single biggest difference between a ClearView offer and an MBB offer on paper.

 

Every US posting I reviewed uses the same wording: base salary, an annual discretionary performance bonus, and benefits. No signing bonus figure appears in any of them. That absence matters, because a consulting signing bonus is standard and published at the larger firms.

 

Here is how I read the bonus math from the public data. At Senior Consultant, Glassdoor's total pay estimate of $159,824 sits at roughly the filed base of $160,000, while at Engagement Manager the $226,920 estimate sits well above the $190,000 to $200,000 filed base. Bonuses appear to stay small at junior levels and scale up once you own client relationships.

 

Then there is the hours question. Self-reported data on Wall Street Oasis puts the average ClearView work week at 53 hours. Run a $92,500 base against that pace across a 50-week year and an Analyst is earning roughly $35 an hour before bonus.

 

How Does ClearView Salary Compare to MBB?

 

ClearView pays less than McKinsey, BCG, and Bain at every level where both are publicly documented. The gap is roughly $20,000 at undergraduate entry and roughly $60,000 at advanced degree entry, and it is the single most important number to understand before you accept.

 

Entry point	ClearView	MBB	Difference
Undergraduate base	$92,500	$112,000 to $115,000	$19,500 to $22,500 lower
Advanced degree base	$130,000	$190,000 to $192,000	About $60,000 lower
Year one total, undergraduate	$92,500 plus discretionary bonus	$130,000 to $135,000	Roughly $40,000 lower

 

The advanced degree gap is the one that surprises people. A life sciences PhD choosing between ClearView and an MBB offer is looking at a $60,000 annual base difference on day one, and MBB layers a published signing bonus on top of that. Current MBB salaries put post-MBA and PhD base pay at roughly $190,000 across all three firms.

 

So why do strong candidates still pick ClearView? Depth. In my years at Bain, healthcare was one practice among many, and a junior consultant might spend a year on retail before touching a biopharma case.

 

At ClearView every project is life sciences. That builds therapeutic-area fluency far faster and shows up later in consulting exit opportunities into biotech and pharma strategy roles.

 

How Does ClearView Pay Compare to Other Life Sciences Consulting Firms?

 

ClearView sits in the middle of the life sciences consulting pack on pay. Its median filed base salary of $115,000 across 116 Department of Labor records lands just under Putnam Associates and well below both Trinity Life Sciences and ZS Associates.

 

Firm	Median filed base	Filings
ZS Associates	$159,800	217
Trinity Life Sciences	$140,000	53
Putnam Associates	$120,000	63
ClearView Healthcare Partners	$115,000	116

 

Treat this table as directional, not as a level-matched comparison. Each median pools every job title and every filing year for that employer, so a firm that sponsors more senior or more technical roles will look better paid than it is. ZS Associates is the clearest example, because it files a large volume of data science and technology roles that pull its median well above its consulting bands.

 

Sample size cuts the other way for ClearView. With 116 records, its median is built on more data than any of the three comparison firms, and its 2025 figure of $132,500 is well above the all-year number. The honest read is that ClearView pays roughly in line with Putnam and somewhat below Trinity at equivalent levels.

 

Does ClearView Salary Vary by Office Location?

 

No, ClearView does not adjust base salary by US office at the entry level. The Analyst base is $92,500 whether you join in Boston, New York, or San Francisco, and the Consultant postings quote a single starting figure across all three cities.

 

Median filed salaries do differ by city, but that reflects which roles each office sponsors rather than a location premium. Newton, the Boston-area headquarters, shows a median of $118,000 across 50 filings. New York shows $115,000 across 44 filings, and San Francisco shows $107,500 across 15.

 

The practical consequence is simple. A flat national base means your real purchasing power is meaningfully higher in Boston than in San Francisco or Manhattan, and that difference is worth more than the small gaps you will find between competing boutique offers. ClearView also operates London, Zurich, and Gurgaon offices, where local pay scales apply.

 

How Should You Evaluate a ClearView Offer?

 

Having coached hundreds of candidates through consulting offers one on one, I see the same three mistakes repeatedly: anchoring on base alone, ignoring hours, and treating the bonus as a known quantity. Use the tips below to compare a ClearView offer properly.

 

Tip #1: Convert every offer into an effective hourly rate

 

Base salary means nothing until you divide it by the hours you will actually work. At 53 hours a week, a $92,500 ClearView base is roughly $35 an hour. Run the same calculation on every competing offer using realistic hours rather than the ones in the recruiting deck.

 

Tip #2: Ask for the bonus range in writing

 

ClearView describes its bonus as discretionary and publishes no target. Ask your recruiter what the bonus paid last year at your level, at the bottom, middle, and top of the performance curve. A recruiter who will not answer that is telling you something useful.

 

Tip #3: Price the specialization, not just the salary

 

A ClearView offer buys you two years of pure biopharma strategy work that a generalist firm cannot match. That depth is exactly what biotech and pharma employers pay for later, so the entry-level discount often reverses on the way out. Map the offer against a realistic healthcare consulting career path before you compare base numbers.

 

Tip #4: Expect little movement on entry-level base

 

ClearView sets a single first-year Analyst base across an entire class, and class-wide numbers almost never move for individual candidates. Your room to move sits in start date, office assignment, relocation support, and any unpublished signing bonus. Those are the terms worth pushing on when you negotiate a consulting offer.

 

None of these numbers matter until you clear the interviews, and ClearView's process leans hard on science-heavy business cases that punish generic frameworks. If you want to build case skills quickly, my case interview course walks you through proven strategies in as little as 7 days.

 

A ClearView salary will not be the highest offer on your table, and that is the honest tradeoff for the deepest life sciences training available at the analyst level. Decide whether two years of biopharma specialization is worth roughly $20,000 a year in forgone base, and if it is, put your preparation into the ClearView Healthcare case interview rather than into second-guessing the number.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

 

How much does ClearView Healthcare Partners pay entry-level Analysts?

 

ClearView pays entry-level Analysts a first-year base salary of $92,500, according to the firm's own job postings for Summer 2026 and Summer 2027 start dates. That figure is identical in Boston, New York, and San Francisco, so there is no cost-of-living adjustment by office. Analysts are also eligible for a discretionary annual performance bonus that ClearView does not publish a target for.

 

Does ClearView pay less than MBB?

 

Yes, at every level where both are publicly documented. ClearView's $92,500 Analyst base sits roughly $20,000 below the $112,000 to $115,000 that McKinsey, BCG, and Bain pay undergraduate hires. The gap widens at the advanced degree entry point, where ClearView starts Consultants near $130,000 and MBB starts post-MBA and PhD hires around $190,000.

 

What is the highest salary at ClearView Healthcare Partners?

 

The highest publicly documented base salary at ClearView is $230,000 for an Associate Principal, filed with the US Department of Labor in 2024. Principals, Managing Directors, and Partners sit above that level, but ClearView does not disclose their pay and no reliable public filings cover those roles. Assume leadership compensation is heavily weighted toward performance and business development rather than base.

 

Does ClearView Healthcare Partners pay a signing bonus?

 

ClearView's public job postings list a base salary, a discretionary annual performance bonus, and a benefits package, and they do not name a signing bonus figure. That is a real difference from MBB, which publishes signing bonuses for undergraduate and MBA hires. Ask your recruiter directly, because an unpublished signing bonus is often the most flexible part of a boutique offer.

 

How long does it take to get promoted at ClearView?

 

ClearView states that Senior Analyst candidates typically have over one and a half years of life sciences consulting experience, and that Senior Consultant candidates have at least two years plus an advanced degree. The firm also promotes strong Senior Analysts into the Consultant role without an advanced degree, which is unusual for a life sciences boutique. In practice, expect a promotion every 18 to 30 months if you are performing well.

 

Is ClearView Healthcare Partners salary competitive for life sciences consulting?

 

It is mid-pack. Department of Labor filings put ClearView's median filed base at $115,000 across 116 records, just below Putnam Associates at $120,000 and well below Trinity Life Sciences at $140,000 and ZS Associates at $159,800. Those medians mix job titles and years, so treat them as directional rather than level-matched comparisons.

 

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