London Analysts Bonuses 2022

Feel like the stats here are skewed a bit owing to American bonuses. State your A1/A2/A3/base/bonus in London. Include firm if you want, would def increase comparability.

I can start: A1 / 65k / 25k - 90k all in

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LOL good luck with that this year. I would expect ranges of 30-70%. 60-70 being top, 40-60 being mid, 30-40 being bottom.

Fees are down, employment market is down (way way more difficult to hire out currently), and general bank performance is down with pretty significant headwinds macro wise as we move into a recession.

Why would they pay you 100%?

 

Thanks but the running rhetoric is that it’s been a bad year for the group and that we should be happy with what’s been given out. European BB so historically lower but 40% seems like a pisstake for mid bucket tbh.

 

I feel you. I am just starting as well but one thing I learn in this game is. Nobody will look out for you so if you are very annoyed leave if you can., dont believe their BS. If you like them stay.

 

Pre-COVID (ie all the base bumps) 90k would be top bucket at the shops that would pay the most. Its not great but it’s clearly not going to be a great year for banks.
Keep your head down and keep your job - its going to get ugly in the next few months if you ask me (been hearing some teams starting to cut or tell people to consider changing teams given the lack of PnL). 

 
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Second that - people lost perspective for what the market looked like pre-raises way too quickly.

Just as a reminder: Mid-bucket at GS (AN1) was GBP20k in Summer 2020 when they thought Covid-19 would result in a recession. Base was still at GBP50k then too. No BB in their right mind will pay 100%, much less so for a mid-bucket ranking. 

 

Fully understand where you’re coming from. I do honestly believe that the current generation of analysts (including myself) may have an ‘unrealistic’ expectation considering we’ve just been through a decade of basically free financing, and the last two years being some of the best conditions for the (debt) industry to bloom. That being said, in my opinion, the entire outlook on how we’re viewing bonuses has to always be comparative - which is the reason for my post.

 

Greater banter Mario, how certain are you of the validity of my title?

 

I suggested the move for dealflow-related reasons, sorry if that wasn’t clear

 

Hey, 

Thank you for shaming them. I find it low. Are you planing to leave? I am joining the firm and I am already thinking of leaving just waiting for an oportunity. Just to confirm, Have they increased salary for A2 or was it always 60K for A1 and then 75k A2. Do you think they ll raise since CS did ?

Also did they make the analyst programe 2 years or is it 2 and a half

years. sorry for the many questions and thank you for the answers

 

A1 at 65 soon

And yes, analyst programme is 2.5 years.

Great culture in most teams but HR is taking the absolute piss out of everything

 

Analyst 1 at a top MM:

Base ~100k/~15k signing/45k bonus - ~157k all in

 

Wow, are you straight out of school or is this after IB analyst years? That makes a huge difference haha.

 

Oh nice didn’t realise MS already released numbers 

many idea what Analyst 1 was?

 

General Question: Are all of these numbers net salary? I am asking since compared to the US they seem extremely low. I mean if you make 90k before tax in LDN you make around 55net. With 3k spending a month (I assume 2k rent per month and 1k living expense) you can only save about 20k. According to the US thread, some people there managed to save up to 60-90k as an AN1.

Hows that possible?

 

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