How To Become A Senior Staff Consultant: What It Is and Career Path

What is a senior staff consultant and how to become one

Updated January 8, 2025

3 min read

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to being a senior staff consultant. For example, did you know that they make an average of $49.14 an hour? That's $102,205 a year! Between 2018 and 2028, the career is expected to grow 9% and produce 56,000 job opportunities across the U.S.

ScoreSenior Staff ConsultantUS Average

Salary

7.7

Avg. Salary $102,205

Avg. Salary $59,228

Stability Level

5.3

Growth Rate 9%

Growth Rate 0.3%

Diversity

5.5

Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 0.19%

Asian 14.47%

Black or African American 10.53%

Hispanic or Latino 11.25%

Unknown 5.02%

White 58.54%

Gender

female 34.03%

male 65.97%

Age - 42

Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 3.00%

Asian 7.00%

Black or African American 14.00%

Hispanic or Latino 19.00%

White 57.00%

Gender

female 47.00%

male 53.00%

Age - 42

Stress Level

5.3

Stress level is manageable

7.1 - high

Complexity Level

8.3

Complexity Level is challenging

7 - challenging

Work Life Balance

4.8

Work Life balance is fair

6.4 - fair

Key steps to become a senior staff consultant

Explore senior staff consultant education requirements

Most common senior staff consultant degrees

Bachelor's

70.3 %

Master's

20.0 %

Associate

6.7 %

Start to develop specific senior staff consultant skills

Skills	Percentages
Process Improvement	12.59%
Product Development	8.46%
Customer Service	6.96%
Issue Resolution	5.90%
Java	5.39%

Complete relevant senior staff consultant training and internships

Accountants spend an average of 6-12 months on post-employment, on-the-job training. New senior staff consultants learn the skills and techniques required for their job and employer during this time. The chart below shows how long it takes to gain competency as a senior staff consultant based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data and data from real senior staff consultant resumes.

Research senior staff consultant duties and responsibilities

Project leadership, strategy and health information management consulting services to healthcare and manage care organizations and health information technology companies.
Base on source element analysis using an internal UNIX system for analysis, develop the appropriate renovation solution for each application.
Support client community by analyzing, researching, and resolving user problems relate to install PC software/hardware.

Get senior staff consultant experience

Generally, it takes 4-6 years to become a senior staff consultant. The most common roles before becoming a senior staff consultant include programmer analyst, consultant team lead and manager.

Apply for senior staff consultant jobs

Now it's time to start searching for a senior staff consultant job. Consider the tips below for a successful job search:

Browse job boards for relevant postings
Consult your professional network
Reach out to companies you're interested in working for directly
Watch out for job scams

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Senior Staff Consultant reviews

A zippia user wrote a review on Aug 2020

Cons

It needs more patience to apply the true solution and satisfy your client