2021 First Year Analyst Base Salary Benchmarking

Hello all,

As the other "updated" thread has not been updated in weeks, I thought it'd be useful to combine everything we know about first year analyst base salaries and where they currently stand (raised or not).

This guide is meant to be a baseline resource for prospective and incoming interns and analysts, so for sake of consistency, I've only included first year salaries.

Here's what we've got, and please feel free to correct me on anything -- this is a community forum after all.

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Last updated: 8.18.21
 

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Evercore: $120,000

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LionTree: $115,000

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Baird: $110,000

Centerview Partners: $110,000

Goldman Sachs: $110,000

Guggenheim: $110,000

Jefferies: $110,000

Moelis: $110,000

PJT: $110,000

PWP: $110,000

William Blair: $110,000

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HSBC: $105,000

Houlihan Lokey: $105,000

Raymond James: $105,000

Rothschild: $105,000

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Bank of America: $100,000

Barclays: $100,000

BMO: $100,000

BNP Paribas: $100,000

Canaccord Genuity: $100,000

Citi: $100,000

Cowen: $100,000

Credit Suisse: $100,000

Deutsche Bank: $100,000

FT Partners: $100,000

Greenhill: $100,000

Harris Williams: $100,000

JPMorgan: $100,000

Lazard: $100,000

Lincoln International: $100,000

Macquarie: $100,000

Mizuho: $100,000

Morgan Stanley: $100,000

MTS Health Partners: $100,000

Nomura: $100,000

PJ Solomon: $100,000

Piper Sandler: $100,000

Qatalyst: $100,000

Societe Generale: $100,000

Stifel: $100,000

SVB Leerink: $100,000

UBS: $100,000

Wells Fargo: $100,000

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Oppenheimer: $95,000

RBC: $95,000

TD Securities: $95,000

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Truist: $87,500

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Tobin & Co: $0

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