2020 bonuses

Lots of other forums have one, figured might as well do one here.

Base/bonus

Year of experience/seniority

Anything you want to share about fund performance or whatever.

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Will update periodically with a summary

200 + 200/next year start
80 + 50/1 year
120 + 180/1 year
250 + 100/1 year, 1/6th stub
125 + 125/2 year
150 + 1500/2 year
125 + 2250/3 year
200 + 250/5 year 
150 + 350/5 year
150 + 400/5 year
150 + 100/?
200 + 500/?

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As a person who decides bonuses, your experience can definitely cap your bonus and set a range, but it's more about your personal contributions.  So either there was a perception that the stuff you worked on was not directly linked to the pnl or your boss is just unfair.

As a rule of thumb I think the buckets are: 300k, 300-500, 500-750, 750-1mm, 1mm, 3mm, 10mm+.  Getting over 1mm basically means formulaic contributions and running strategies that you developed on your own and not firm IP.

So it's worth asking why u were in the bucket u were vs the other guys.

 
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300: junior analyst couple years at fund with upside. No upside or bad attitude for team and you're out the door.

300-500: either senior quant without direct pnl ties or like 3-5 year experience analyst in normal years and normal contribution. Most are in this bucket.

500-750: Need direct pnl ties.  5y+ average analyst or 3 years in a great year and significant contributions

750-1mm: 5y+ experience significant contributions good year but not direct risk.

1mm: Jr PM with risk in decent year and formulaic payout or experienced analyst in big year

3mm: average tenured PM without scale

10mm+: senior PM with scale and capable of putting up 50mm+ net

That's basically the hierarchy and how to think about it.  Note this is TOTAL COMP, not bonus.

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