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Fortune 300 utility. Analyst/associate level (they are basically the same thing at my company).

Salary plus “regular” bonus: $90k (bonus is based largely, but not entirely, on company-level metrics that has been exceeded by 10-30% basically every year for the past decade).

Deal-based bonus at the discretion of corp dev VP: $5k (1-2 a year).

401k: 4% automatic and a 4% dollar for dollar match.

Healthcare/other similar benefits.

I am out of a bumfuck city so col is below average (which means far less than Chicago/NYC/etc)

 

Was recruiting in early 2022 and received 2 Corp Dev Associate offers.

Both offers were in Bay Area at big tech companies (not FANNG though). Comp was very similar between the two offers: $110 - $120K base + 30% bonus where a small portion was stock. Turned both offers down after talking to people and knowing how sweaty those teams were. The two tech companies were very acquisitive, did divestitures from time to time as well, and culture was not great (mostly ex-bankers).

 

I work in a corporate development & strategy at a PE-backed company, that is really strong for somebody with 2 YOE.

Granted, we wouldn't go after a BB analyst typically, the majority of our team that has 4-6 YOE is around 150k base + 15% bonus (not all are ex-bankers, either). If I were to hire somebody at 2 YOE, I don't think I'd be able to get approval for 170k TC unless it was somebody who worked for me previously that I really wanted

The other thing to consider, it's fucking murderers row for PE-backed companies right now - hard to get deals done, higher interest expense hurts EBITDA to cash, less CapEx downstream spend coming from end-users, really hard to take something to market, etc.. My bonus is >30% of base, I am expecting a 0 this year. If I were you, I'd ask how the bonus is calculated (e.g., mine is strictly based on EBITDA goals)

Hope this helps

 

Approaching 6 YoE and received manager title under a year ago, at $175k base, bonus last year was $55k (cash / stock split), hoping this year (full year post-promo) will be closer to $65-70k bonus (I don't expect much more than an inflationary 3-5% raise in base).

Before promo at Sr. associate was ~$145k base + 40k bonus.

F-100 and we cover a range of work, mainly deal execution with some strategy and finance sprinkled in.

 

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