London Investment Banking Compensation 2022

Lot of data on US Salaries, but looking to see what my peers are getting paid in london at different shops?

Currently A1 at HSBC 66k - trying to find out if im underpaid :(

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Street is c.65k so your in line with market - have HSBC recently raised A1?

 

Arkensden report is out and has exact 2022 figures for BBs so just Google it.

not IB but MM HFs training programs are around 100k base

 

Lol 60k??? I knew salaries in LND were bad, but this is nuts

The compensation in London compared to NYC has become just ridiculous. At this point an A2 in NYC makes more money than most associates in London.

To put some perspective, London analyst salaries are closer to NY-based McDonalds employees than to their NYC counterparts.

 

Think it all balances out to be fair. Free healthcare, better travelling destinations in and around Europe. Rent to income and what you can get is also all relative tbh. 

 

I'm sure the 80h work week is justified by having Croatia as a feasible holiday destination. 

Also the healthcare sucks.

 

Was going to say London pay was bad and make jokes but after looking at what you can rent for what I am currently paying in a shitty studio in Midtown Manhattan, I want to move to London desperately now. These apartments will set you back USD5000 to USD10K at least in my neighborhood and they'll not come furnished plus you get a mob of murderous homeless people around causing trouble with the occasional slashing or shooting. Currently paying 2800pm for a beyond shitty walk up apartment with roaches and a crime problem.

Why are we living like this in NYC??

 

both in "bad" locations tho... You won't find the same for the same price in other areas

 

I've lived in London in my youth those are quite comparable to Midtown Manhattan, which is a "good area" in NYC. One of them is literally in Canary Wharf which is like Hudson Yards over here. I'm guessing you're one of those people that only think good areas are South Kensington, Belgravia and any other place with a lot of royalty living there, which there is nothing wrong with just different tastes and I prefer a younger more urban crowd.

Canary Wharf is similar to Hudson Yards here and an average person would gasp if you told them you lived there so calling it a bad neighborhood isn't true at least to me. 

You can't even find apartments like that in the bronx (an actual bad neighborhood) for that price and you're basically guaranteed to witness at least one shooting living there and if you do find one you'll probably have to pay USD10K+ to move in. I had to pay 7500 to move into my apartment that is around the same price. 

 

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