Graduates Gettings >$100000 Base Salary?!

I was going through my school's graduate survey of 2008 (undergrad business school) and some kids are scoring >$100,000 base salary. I'd imagine they're working at places like Silver Lake or other PE shops?? What other companies offer that much money for graduates and how do you get a job like that?

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Bridgewater pays 100K base, you get a car and a housing stipend. But its miserable. A friend just got an offer there.

In terms of how to get a job? They heavily recruit on campus and he was an Engineering/Econ major, was part of a fraternity and went to Deerfield.

He's not stupid, but he definitely didn't have the greatest grades in the world - I'm assuming he was able to do some networking.

ideatingYou get a car and a housing stipend? What a joke - you should check your facts on that.

That was for the intern program, my mistake. I'm not sure if its for full-time.

Thats standard amongst a lot of firms though. I know Louis-Dreyfus did that for a friend of mine, and another guy I know did a program with Morgan Stnaley and they put him up in the King's College student/intern housing building with other kids from our school.

 

You're all idiot, forgetting RenTech. OP, you must be kinda screwed in the head, b/c you posted this in the ibanking forum, when NO ibanks pay near to 100K. Should be moved to PE/HF forum.

 

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