2024 Baird Bonus
Any updates on Baird bonuses this year? Guess they announced couple days back and see no topic/comments here? Anything at all?
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Probably brutal given everybody hates the new CEO. Baird and Blair bonuses were comical the last few years
guessing they got 2 Giannis jerseys (home and alternate) + a pat on the back
lol.. quite possible given complete silence on the forum
enlighten me on the new CEO
Bump
Ass
Literally no numbers?
Heard from a buddy who works there that they are laughably bad
Number haven’t even come out yet. No one knows, they had the second best year in firm history.
Do they announce the numbers separately for analysts/associates/VPs? I read on the forum the numbers were out sometime last week?
False. My buddy knows, top bucket senior assoc ~$100k
Buddy, Baird ≠ Blair...
Many numbers out but still in process
Everybody being shy.
I know an associate 2 who got 165 and another in a diff group who got 85. Wild disparity.
They also didn’t promote a lot of people
Heard analysts got $10-20k bonuses across industry groups, brutal
Analyst 1 stub bonus was a little shy of $20k. It sucks that analyst's have to get stubs their first year but is what it is. As the above comments say, there is a large disparity amongst the different levels, if you are a top performer you will get paid very well (Because they don't want you to hop ship), unfortunately not many are top performers (i.e. "top bucket senior associate" who got 100k likely wasn't top bucket).
Analyst 1 (lateralled from another firm at beginning of year) - 60k
Top bucket - Had very strong reviews and ranked Above expectations in all 3 categories (you have to ask)
Looking forward to another good year
Additionally, addressing the above comment of "they don't promote a lot". This is wrong, the issue is there are a shit ton of associates right now (at least in my group), and the majority of them quite frankly are just bad MBA associates. The best associates are A2A (duh) and these strong performers seem to have no problem moving up the ranks.
Thank you, helpful to know. Assuming they aren’t hiring associates at the moment in that case?
As the comments above noted, the disparity from top to bottom bucket is larger than ever. Top performers got comped very well and poor performers did not. All in comp varied by group but top Analysts ended up in the low to mid $200s and top Associates got close to $400k.
This is largely true but those comp numbers were for experienced analysts (very few analysts actually passed 200k tc fwiw) and senior associates.
There were surprisingly few promotions going around this year, at all levels. That in turn translated to higher bonuses for those specific people because they want to keep them around for 2025.
This tracks to what I got and what I have heard from people
Why are you cucks creating separate bonus threads by bank - that is what the master thread is for
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