IBD Analyst Stint: How much did you make?

Now that bonuses are out for most places - was curious (including second year bonus) what people were able to save. Just trying to benchmark what is the median.

I Saved around 140k across everything (including 20k in 401k) at a BB

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How is that standard? If you say rent is ~2k a month in NYC and after tax bi-monthly is like 2.4K at 100k salary.. that means if you spend absolutely nothing else you can save like 3k a month? So even at ~30k a year saved of salary (at absolute most), plus the ~28k post-tax average bonus (based on average 50k first year bonus this year).. seems more like 60k if you were REALLY tight with your money. 90k definitely does not seem like the “average” at least this year… Anyway kudos to this guy though

 

No student loans. Only debt is a car loan at 2.5%. This debt is intentional; I originally had a car that I bought in cash. Realized this didn't make any sense as the car was pretty expensive and I shouldn't have parked all the money there. Switched into another car and this time I took out the biggest and cheapest loan I could find. 

 

How is this even possible? That’s like, most people’s total after-tax pay..

 
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Work in Houston. 

This is the answer. In my reply up above, I mean it when I say I don’t live frugally. Over the past 3 years, my GF and I have eaten out pretty often. Built myself a sweet gaming rig. Got into guns and got a few nice ones for my collection recently. For my entire analyst stint I drove a nice car. At one point I had two nice cars. TX is paradise.

I’ll caveat though that the key is not only LCOL and TX taxes, but also COVID. My expenses dropped significantly during that period and then all the pandemic-boosted bonuses and base salary raises hit.

 

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