HF Comp - junior guys

Joined a HF straight out of college. Single manager roughly 4B in assets with a lot of inflows coming. Roughly 10 of us on investment side.What are expectations for junior level comp?Full transparency - I make 100K base and bossman said to expect a 100% bonus year one . Also have bunch of other perks like profit sharing on 401K, co invest in fund, etc.My real question is for those of you in similar spots what's the comp ramp like between say years 1-5?

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You are getting $40-80mm in mgmt fees alone across 10 investment heads. If you guys do 10% in a year, that should add another ~$80mm of comp

How does that get split up? I always assumed GP would take at least half so $60-80mm across 9 folks? Maybe two PMs that pull $10mm+? That should leave a few million for jr analysts. I guess early 20s and new guys should be comped to banking though given they wont add value for a few years

 

Expect bare minimum to keep you until you've proven to be a consistent value-add and profit generator at your fund (aka you've shown you can consistently generate profitable ideas)

 

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