How many people in AM break 500K?

Just out of curiousity would anyone know how often it is for an analyst at a large firm to break 500k? Obviously I know this won't happen right away but if someone stays at a firm for 10+ years is this attainable?

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Really depends how many hours that you’re willing to put in. For 60-80 hour jobs, pretty much everyone will make it eventually. This category is pretty much medium to large asset managers. At the smaller ones, you’re gonna need to be a pm and have a good year. For those working 40-55 hours, it’ll be tough to break that. This will generally be insurance companies that are plain vanilla IG stuff. Note however, many large insurance companies are not plain vanilla, such as prudential, Assurant, John Hancock. There’s probably more that I didn’t list, but yea. Those with large third party assets and clo/private debt platforms are gonna pay their employees better. Ex. Prudential Capital junior hire in Dallas is 70k+10k sign on+20k guaranteed bonus+another possible 20k for top bucket

 

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