Robinho:
No, just based on a few boutiques in south Florida.

I'm guessing that you're comparing MM boutique salaries to BB / elite boutique salaries - and that's your problem right there.

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NorthSider:
Robinho:
No, just based on a few boutiques in south Florida.

I'm guessing that you're comparing MM boutique salaries to BB / elite boutique salaries - and that's your problem right there.

this...

Ive even heard of some that pay 60k all in, but still expect 70+ hrs.

Metro vs urban vs size are rather irrelevant. Many of the South FL boutiques are outside of Miami anyways

 

Texas has Houston (top 5 pop. city) and Dallas. As well as, being the center for the O&G industry. Miami has Lebron but that doesn't make it a major city. Population wise it's smaller than Jax. I'm not saying everything is based off of size but the top cities are going to pay higher. They also tend to have a higher cost of living. I don't think the beach is a justifiable explanation for 35% less comp when you're expected to log heavy hours.

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Robinho:
Miami is more of a world city than Houston, actually. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city

Just because Houston and Dallas are huge suburbs, and you can be 30 miles from downtown, and still in a Houston address, doesn't mean they are major cities by most standards. San Francisco is a lot smaller than both, but a lot more "major" as an example.

Rank City Rating 36 Miami 2.13 37 Istanbul 2.10 38 Houston 2.08

Doesn't seem like there is much difference there.

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GuidoMane:
Texas has Houston (top 5 pop. city) and Dallas. As well as, being the center for the O&G industry. Miami has Lebron but that doesn't make it a major city. Population wise it's smaller than Jax. I'm not saying everything is based off of size but the top cities are going to pay higher. They also tend to have a higher cost of living. I don't think the beach is a justifiable explanation for 35% less comp when you're expected to log heavy hours.

WTF are you talking about? It's the 8th largest Metro area in the US.

Miami is more expensive than Houston and Dallas in terms of cost of living.

Clearly you've never been to Miami.

 
peinvestor2012:
GuidoMane:
Texas has Houston (top 5 pop. city) and Dallas. As well as, being the center for the O&G industry. Miami has Lebron but that doesn't make it a major city. Population wise it's smaller than Jax. I'm not saying everything is based off of size but the top cities are going to pay higher. They also tend to have a higher cost of living. I don't think the beach is a justifiable explanation for 35% less comp when you're expected to log heavy hours.

WTF are you talking about? It's the 8th largest Metro area in the US.

Miami is more expensive than Houston and Dallas in terms of cost of living.

Clearly you've never been to Miami.

Actually 4th largest urban area

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas#2010_Urb…

 
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GuidoMane:
Texas has Houston (top 5 pop. city) and Dallas. As well as, being the center for the O&G industry. Miami has Lebron but that doesn't make it a major city. Population wise it's smaller than Jax. I'm not saying everything is based off of size but the top cities are going to pay higher. They also tend to have a higher cost of living. I don't think the beach is a justifiable explanation for 35% less comp when you're expected to log heavy hours.

WTF are you talking about? It's the 8th largest Metro area in the US.

Miami is more expensive than Houston and Dallas in terms of cost of living.

Clearly you've never been to Miami.

Actually 4th largest urban area

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas#2010_Urb…]

To lazy to read what the difference is between Urban and Metro areas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas

 

It has nothing to do with Miami and everything to do with the fact that the investment banks you're hearing about that "pay so poorly" aren't the major firms most commonly discussed on WSO. When people on this website talk about $70k + 50% of that in bonus being standard pay or "Street," that applies to the bulge brackets (Goldman, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Barclays, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, UBS, maybe Wells Fargo now) and elite boutiques (Lazard, Centerview, Evercore, Greenhill, Moelis, Qatalyst, Perella Weinberg) and well-known middle market firms (Houlihan Lokey, Raymond James, William Blair, Piper Jaffray, Jefferies).

If you're working at a relatively small investment bank in a local market (like Miami), these compensation numbers that are thrown around like gospel on this website aren't really in-line with reality. On the plus side, neither are the hours.

 
Robinho:
LOL, where have you been living? To say that the U.S. doesn't have cheap labor is like saying that it doesn't have gun nuts and fat people.

You're insane. If we have so much cheap labor, why are we off-shoring manufacturing? This doesn't even make sense. Claiming that a G10 country has an abundant supply of cheap labor is like saying that we'll soon be outsourcing surgeries to "doctors" in the DRC.

"For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment we can savor, and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible."
 
NorthSider:
Robinho:
LOL, where have you been living? To say that the U.S. doesn't have cheap labor is like saying that it doesn't have gun nuts and fat people.

You're insane. If we have so much cheap labor, why are we off-shoring manufacturing? This doesn't even make sense. Claiming that a G10 country has an abundant supply of cheap labor is like saying that we'll soon be outsourcing surgeries to "doctors" in the DRC.

China is a G10 country and has the cheapest labor you can find. So you are OWNED on that one.

Second I claimed the US has cheap labor "compared to" Western Europe. Of course there is even cheaper labor in the uncivilized world and hence the off-shoring.

 

All these different topics that all of you are talking about are pointless. What matters is that the US will be dominated by immigrants and Spanish will be the primary language in the near future. If you don't speak Spanish in Business you will have to immigrate to Canada more than likely. The US will be all about speaking Spanish and all the money coming into the country as well as the labor force will be from highly educated upper income South American families. Miami will be the new Wall Street and no one will speak English. It will be awesome because people can come to work buzzed after cuban coffee and have Palomilla steakeveryday for lunch not to mention going to south beach in the evening to have fun with bottles and models.

PEB
 
peinvestor2012:
CRE:
Come hear to read about non-target city salaries. Find a huge debate about Fiat and American ethics.

...what?

If you end up in a non-target city, you hate America and drive Fiats. Seems self-explanatory.

hah, considering that people in non-targets are probably more BUY AMERICAN!!!111, it might actually be the opposite

Doubt there are many Fiats in the midwest :p

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