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This is a stupid question.

1. The bonuses haven't even come out

2. No one knows what GS management plans to do in the future with bonuses, people don't even know what they're planning to do THIS year

3. There is no "should be." Last year bonuses are astronomically high at Goldman cause of the GS-13 bad press combined with a really good year. If anything, should be will be a lot closer to earth given the year. 

Right now you're literally posting threads about what school to go to and its August so I assume you're a rising senior in college thinking about applying to schools. The analyst bonuses at Goldman should be the last thing you're posting questions about

 

Of all banks that you'd have to suspect of pulling a bait-and-switch on comp, it would be GS (outside of some LMM bucket shop or something).  GS has a long and proud history of looking out for GS - not knocking on the shop, it's clearly a powerhouse.  But the fact that the stock sold off on perceived excess compensation costs last year just underlines it even more.  But I'd be happy to be proven wrong; not one to want overworked juniors to get underpaid.

 

In Classic IBD.

Every group is slightly different in how they paid per bucket as well as the number of people in each as I have friends who all got varying amounts as a standard "mid" pay. Some groups I know don't really even give lower mid or bottom bucket and it is very flat with a few exceptions here and there. In general, seemed that the goal was to beat JP and MS by a bit and be in line with BofA.

In general most A1s got between 50-60k. A2s were very varying but from what I've seen about 75-100 (a lot more nuance to this given some are leaving to PE and some people honestly just slack off and don't do much work, as such there are A2s who made less than A1s). Mixed feelings all around. Nothing to celebrate but at least we're not Barclays. 

Our associates outside of the A0's are paid YE.

 

What are the classic groups that tend to pay higher if you don't mind disclosing? 

 

Most pay in line and there’s so much discrepancies depending on your relationships with the seniors, your staffer, projects you’re on as well as clearly your own innate competence.

The only purely objective thing I could say is that NR and Regal in general announce fewer deals but that’s mitigated by having fewer mouths to feed. Honestly your comp at the junior level won’t vary more than ~10k between groups.

 

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