Guggenheim raising first year salary to 100k?
At least this is what is on liquidity. But don’t know if legit. Can anyone verify whether or not this is true?
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It’s real. Bases for Analysts through MDs are being raised. The screenshot being circulated doesn’t show all the levels
Analyst 1 / 2 / 3 is now 100 / 110 / 125
All bumps retroactive to January
does gugg only have a 3 year analyst program? any opportunities for 2 year promotes?
what are the corresponding bonuses from last year?
What do MDs actually get paid all in?
At Gugg? My guess is $1.5 - $3.0 mil
Whoa would that be the highest on the street?
Yeah, I saw this, but haven’t seen the story anywhere else so don’t know if it’s legit.
AS0/AS1: $175 (from $150)
AS2: $200 (from $175)
AS3: $225 (from $200)
The other EBs are likely to match this increase, right?
I feel like that gap is large enough where places now have to match, I imagine this will be the standard across banks in a year from now.
Now that Gugg has moved EVR/MOE/LAZ/PJT should follow...fingers crossed
Some EB's in your list are already at 160 for AS0/AS1, so we'll see if they move.
Can confirm some MM banks have done this too for AS, not the analysts
Can confirm this is accurate, and the other comment above about the screenshot not showing the VP & MD raises is accurate
What is the VP and MD bump?
Interviewed with Gugg earlier today and this was mentioned
Which group?
Holy shit huge for Analyst 1s in terms of % increase. Second only to CVP in terms of overall comp now.
Holy shit An3 is getting nearly a third more in base
Do you think BBs will raise too?
Will bonuses be lower?
At worst it’s moving variable back-ended compensation to fixed compensation with overall staying the same. Always better to get the money now
Thank you @GS13
Ha. Be insane if the GS 13 didn’t get raises themselves.
Was there anything else mentioned? Any work-life balance changes?
Nope... we getting crushed out here
Heard that BMO was upping comp at the Junior levels. Is that true? Any insight on this?
Hopefully total comp increases across the board but either way this is good news
Evercore needs to follow suit. It's been several years that other EBs pay more than EVR. We are approaching bulge territory...
At what levels?
AN? ASO? or higher...
Can only speak for ASO but this past year, EVR paid $5-10k more in base but paid $20k++ less in bonus compared to PJT and Guggenheim specifically. IDK about LAZ/Moelis/PWP
Why do wells only pay $175k base for VP?
They're at 225k for VP at least in IB. Guessing they will move up to 250k assuming they increase AS3 to 225k along with the other banks.
Will this apply to incoming full time analysts as well?
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