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youngmonkeyStop asking about base pay. Even if they did drop to 60k you're making more than 90% of families.

You'd settle for 90th percentile?

The point is that if you're earning $60K and you're worth no more than $60K (a fair statement given that if an analyst was paid what he was worth his first year, most of us would have spent our first year in a tent in Central Park), you have no right to complain if you're making more than everyone else.

We're all incredibly blessed to be working in this industry.

Sorry to butt in. I agree that those in finance are privileged to be where they are, but in the good old spirit of competition, you have to realize that career-wise you're essentially not competing against anyone in that 90% below you, you're competing against all the finance guys in the 10% above you. It doesn't matter if an apple tastes better than 90 oranges if it's the worse apple of the bunch.