How much is the difference in comp between Qatalyst and CVP

Qatalyst is a very unique firm with regard to compensation because of the way the firm was designed, and a lot of people don't understand this unless they have spoken candidly about it with an employee or have worked there. Qatalyst does three things together that no other bank does: 1. They purposely maintain a very small headcount. 2. They decline to work on transaction under $1 billion (unless there is a compelling reason to do so). 3. They charge much higher fees than other banks; have been told they are very stubborn about this to the point where they occasionally lose mandates to GS/MS because they refuse to lower their fees. Because of this, their revenue per banker is multiples higher than even other top boutiques like Evercore and PJT. 

All of these elements come together to create a firm that is able to pay its employees much higher compensation than any other bank. In solid years, the associates can make 7 figures, and the VPs can make more than $2 million. It isn't uncommon for the total revenue of the firm / the # of employees to be >$10-15 million. 

People only point to the fact that Qatalyst works on the largest tech deals, but they also fail to understand that the structure of the firm itself was very carefully designed to optimize for making the people who work there wealthy, not to optimize for volume/scale.