Inflation at 9% - Will Firms Raise Salaries?

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No need for base raises here at FT Partners. We already make above street pay ($140k as an1 btw)

We are likely teetering on the edge of a recession and fees have declined materially year/year. I think many will be happy to simply keep their jobs.

Y'all received much larger raises than inflation just a few months ago (20%+) and you want to know if they will raise it again? Lol.

I don't believe your current company will raise your salary though, but a new company certainly would.

Had a candid conversation with my mentor (whose also a director). At least for us, salaries won’t be raised by a large amount if at all and the bonus pool will likely even be slightly smaller given the reduction in deal flow compared to 2021 (increase in hiring during the influx with a decrease in deal flow is never pretty). Work at a mid tier BB. Probably a different story for the M&A shops that have consistently been working with all the take privates and strategic acquisitions going on.

Unless you spend 100% of pay check - your employer shouldn't necessarily match wages to raises in inflation.  Consumer Inflation impacts expenditures directly and not so much money set aside from your paycheck into retirement accounts, HSA, health insurance, etc.

LOL raise salaries? More like "when will firms start firing people, and am I gonna be one of them?" Retard. 

I wish but little chance this happens in AM

Banks are speaking about cutting salaries/lowering bonuses on earnings calls due to slower deal flow… 

The real destruction is in ECM/DCM/SPAC world

Let's not forget, banks did material salary hikes for AN-VP like directly before the inflation numbers were hitting. So for them, the 1st yr analyst who is now making 110K has preemptively seen an adjustment upwards to his or her pay.

As touched on with others above, firms will be more prone to trim headcount and conduct layoffs before they provide raises due to inflation. And let's be honest, if you were an associate who went from 175 to 225, that is arguably way above any inflation-adjusted bump even at its most generous state.

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Analyst 1 base should be 125

Analyst 2 base should be 150

Anything less than that is not going to cut it for prices these days

I don't see the reason for such a large gap in comp from AN to AS. It might make sense once you get the VP promotion, as you take on deal quarterbacking responsibility and obviously the jump in pay from VP to D/MD is warranted. But at the junior levels, an AS is not twice as valuable to the firm as an AN (but TC comp is at least 2x-3x).

The A2A that gets the bump to 175k base + 100% bonus isn't working at a different capacity than before. His performance expectations are the same as they would've been without the promotion, only change is there's now going to be 1 person below him on deal teams. 

Not saying to cut AS pay. But it's dumb to pay a rockstar analyst that can do the work of two MBA associates half of his associate counterparts. And saying you're making an "investment" in MBA associates to become career bankers is illogical, as increasing pay would obviously make people want to stay. They might be more likely to stay, but have seen plenty MBA associates realize the job isn't for them and dip within the 1 year mark. 

Only EVR/CVP pay well. Pussy.

Considering some banks just raised salaries by 30-40k dollars I'm gonna take a gander and say no. What's going to aid is a decline in the real estate markets. Negotiate for better rent. Etc. prices will eventually start to come down.

Supply chain is slowly working its self out as China increases production out of lockdown again. While interest rates aren't high enough to organically address inflation, much of it is supply chain driven by events governments created through shutting down economies (and of course making money through printing but also increase in leverage- both to fucking insane amounts.)

In a sense a portion of it is transitory - depending on your timeframe of what's considered "transitory"

They really won’t raise comp because -

Deals down. And the deals that have closed this year were started last year. Rest of 22 will be a halt, unless buyers start eating up cheap Val's w their dry powder (which is extensive)The industry is very fortunate a pay bump occurred in the way that it did. It was kind of insane. 85 to 100? To 110? To 120 in some circumstances and if you were prestigious enough… 140 at FTP…

what the more worrisome concern regarding compensation is the bonuses. MM seem to be delivering strong, as are EBs of course. If you're at most BBs, a foreign or regional- then you're probably lucky to be pulling $30k after cash on a bonus. Not fucking great considering hours - especially at bulges.

We make more than 99% of people on earth.

I’m pretty sure we can easily handle inflation lol.