Former EY partner shares how he climbed the corporate ladder to walk away from it all and become a math teacher

• Deepak Swaroop was a partner at EY in London for 10 years before quitting in 2019.
• Swaroop left his position, with a reported average pay of $1 million in 2022, to change careers.
• He qualified to be a math teacher in his 50s and said teaching is more valuable than money. 

Deepak Swaroop spent nearly 20 years working at EY in London, 10 of which as a partner— a position known to attract an average salary of £803,000, about $1 million. Swaroop has an MBA and has completed courses in executive management at Harvard and AI at MIT.