How Much Do You Make - Endowment, Foundation, FoF, Pension Edition

There's been a lot of chatter recently on endowments, foundations, etc. However, the space is not very transparent in terms of pay, WLB, etc. Hopefully this thread can let us know how over / under paid we are. I'll start.

Salary: $125k

Bonus: $85k

Type: Endowment

Description: Lower Ivy League

Time at Firm: 1.5 years

Total Work Experience: 3.5 years

Average Hours Worked: 65

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No longer in this role but will try and provide useful data points:

Salary: 110k

Bonus: 20k

Type: FoF (tier 2 city doing fund and coinvestment work)

Time at firm: 2 years

Total work experience: 2 years (was first job out of school)

Average hours worked: 60-65

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I'll add a non-US datapoint. Based in the UK office of a large global pension fund / SWF type organisation (e.g. GIC / Norges / Middle East SWF / Canadian Pension Funds)

Salary: £~130k

Bonus: £~150k

Type: Global Pension Fund / SWF

Description: Public Equities - analyst on a small team supporting PM.

Time at Firm: 4.5 years

Total Work Experience: 7.5 years (3 years BB ER before)

Average Hours Worked: 45-55

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