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Bump
They will have big bonus
They are men of gold!! Gold is rare and I cannot find in grass!!!!!!!!!!!
Is GS announcing 1/15?
Bump
Thought it was today?
to be annouced 16 jan
Bump
Stub bonus for second year associate (5 months): £31k
Very disappointing and ridiculous number
Don’t get discouraged - the stub is always crap because they pay everyone the same so the bank has no incentive to pay under-performers a good bonus. It sucks, I know, but next year will be accordingly better
Did you join in the middle of year?
or are you stub?
Anyone got more UK numbers? Especially associate would be interesting
+ would also love to know
85k all cash
Asc 1 (mba year)
Coverage / Classic banking
Fake News. ASO I don’t get paid in winter.
Bottom bucket?
Lateral.
Finished first full year as an associate (entered in 2023). IB coverage
Bonus: $135k
Base bumped up to $200k
was told top... not happy with the number, was expecting more given strong earnings beat
Same ole gs discount
Can confirm I got the same numbers and was told it was top bucket IB
https://nypost.com/2025/01/27/business/goldman-staffers-gripe-over-bonu…
Thx nypost
https://nypost.com/2025/01/27/business/goldman-staffers-gripe-over-bonu…
Thx nypost
An 2
Private Credit
All in 160k
Extremely disappointed given the firm’s strong year - may need to go back to banking…
Bro don’t go back to banking lmao
Guess we know how they beat earnings… lmao
Goldman and shit bonuses is as American as apple pie
Bump bump
Bump
Nobody commenting because everyone’s pretty frustrated with numbers. They were bad.
Nah I’m pretty happy.
I will bite.
Classic ASO 2
Base: $200K (increased to $225K)
Bonus: $140K (I estimate this is top of middle bucket)
Stock / Cash Split: 15% / 85%
Nice - bump
Bump
Daddy Solomon gets 80 m’s, I know where my bonus went
ASO 1
FICC
135k bonus
175k new base
Not great numbers
Only IB
Anyone from PSI willing to share numbers?
Looks like no one wants to share IB #s? Were they that bad?
NYC Classic
Associate just promoted to VP
2024 Base: $225k, Bonus: $185k (~15% stock)
New Base: $250k
Thought GS VP1 was 275k? Did they bring that back down? Thought people getting VP during 2021 and 2022 were at 275k base as a new VP promote
VP1-2 are $250k
VP3-4 are $275k
not sure about VP5 and up though.
Nope
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Classic Goldman, paying less than Citi despite being way more profitable lol
Well, Citi didn't have to shell out $80M x 2 for DJ DSol and Waldron lol
Any VP numbers?
Long way from 2021 / 2022 volumes.
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