Benchmarking MF/UMM PE Base Salaries

My firm is thinking of bumping up base salary and so I was curious what AS1 salaries were for the big ones. Will keep updating as data points come in. Sorry if this has already been created elsewhere.

Edit1: Please comment what the before-and-after is (as in before this new wave of increased base salaries in IB and after if it changed at-all).


Data Points:

$1-2BN - $100K - TBD on bump

$1-2BN (new fund) - $200K

$1-3BN - $115K

$2BN - $130K

$4-7BN - $100K

$5BN - $120K - no change but bonuses increased in 2020-21

$15BN - $150K

MF (BX tier, but not BX) - $120K - no change

MF - $150K - no change

 

It's been $120K for some time now. Steps up to $130K for second years.

Bonuses were increased by $20K to $30K this past cycle. I think all-in, AS1 made $310K and AS2 made up to $360K (inclusive of $10K of one-time payments).

I wouldn't be surprised if bonuses went up a little bit, but haven't heard of any plans to raise base.

 
Funniest

this 240k all in shit is what people are selling their soul for?? someone quick tell me they only work 60 hours before i stroke of confusion... or tell me youre making 2 mil at 30 or something

 

genuinely curious, when does the pay from that start to take off from banking pay? like would a 30 year old who did 2 banking -> pe be making way more than a 30 year old svp who stayed in banking? say were comparing EVR to BX

 

I mean pre-MBA associate is basically another analyst stint. People aren’t really “selling their souls” for that shit (just like they wouldn’t be for fucking analyst comp as career bankers) they’re doing it for the same reasons they chose banking: potential later career $$$s and exit opps. 

Nobody does banking / PE for the analyst years or pre-MBA associate years they do it to lay the ground work for something else. That’s like saying doctors become doctors for their residency years working 80hr weeks.. lol no they do it so they can come out with a secure $200-800k a year pay check for the rest of their life. 

 

Current fund is ~$1-2B and AS1 comp was: $100K (base) + $100K (bonus)

For AS2, comp was just bumped to $115K (base) + $115K (target bonus)

 

AS1 was always $100K + $100K, they are still determining the bump upwards but we don't have any 1st years right now, so I don't know the amount.

AS2 was previously $110K + $110K, so $10K all-in bump for the year. 

 

Analyst or associate? Seems kinda low for associate in direct lending. Low COL city?

 

Got it, so what’s the best way to gauge what bonus will be given there are less data points than IB for example?

 

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