How many people get top bucket at BB?

What's the average split in a group with ~10 analysts? Are you also compared with lateral hires or just your class? maybe just hasn't been enough time to distinguish candidates, but can't really tell the differences in analysts. Everyone seems solid and no outliers on the plus or minus. 

Does the deals that you work on play a role in whether you get top bucket (worked on the biggest deal for the group = top bucket)? Or how many hours someone is putting in? Leading recruiting efforts maybe. Can't really think of a way to really distinguish people, especially the mid to top bucket level. 

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probs like 2-3 top, 3-5 mid, 1-3 bottom from what I’ve seen

you are correct that the differentiator between mid / top sometimes is just down to luck / likeability / staffings

however, keep in mind that top performers are naturally staffed on the best deals if they have capacity so it’s a bit of a loop

 
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When I was in BB world, we would stack rank every analyst in a given class across groups (it would take two days of a committee on a room fighting over little scraps of data).

top 10% - top bucket 

10-25% - second bucket

25% - 50% - upper mid bucket 

50% - 75% - lower mid bucket

75% - 90% - upper bottom bucket 

90% - 100% - true bottom bucket

 

Depends on the firm and revenue generation for the team (product / coverage)

top bucket is more of a BB thing as EVR and other EBs don’t have wide variation in buckets 

at BBs the low rev teams don’t even get allocation for a top bucket analyst / AS / VP comp spot (this can be observed in the recent comp threads where somebody says they were top bucket at $50k and others were mid bucket with same number) 

picked $50k as a random round number for analysts 

top bucket might be an extra $5k to $10k depending on firm (Blair / Baird different for MMs here)

 

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