Good comp/terms for a data scientist on fundamental team

Curious if anyone has insight into how a typical 'quantamental' data scientist is comp'd at MMs. This would be a data scientist actually sitting on an individual pod team, not in the central data group.

I know central data group data scientists can start at ~125K base / 100K bonus for their first year, but that's a different thing from a quantamental person in a pod.

Work experience in HF industry/data ~1 year, plus several years relevant work experience prior.

Anyone have insight?

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