London vs NY IB/PE

Can someone list average street comp (including avg. sign on bonus) for 1st and 2nd year IB Analysts, well as 1st and 2nd year UMM/MF PE Associates between London and NY in this format:

London AN1: x PS AN2: x PS PE1: x PS PE 2: x PS

NY AN1: $x AN2: $x PE1: $x PE 2: $x

Seeing a lot of conflicting comp points online, so don't really know what to make of pay discrepancy between the two cities.

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Thanks. Any idea on the average PE Associate comp for London?

Edit: Found the private equity one, but it only lists it for the same IB BB's. Are these numbers the same as what one would get at a Blackstone/KKR?

 

Pan European Monkey I know that in the US, most IB analysts switch over to PE for better comp. Since you mentioned that PE Associate comp in London is in line with BB IB comp, do most London IB analysts just stay in banking? Or do most still make the move to PE?

 

People still leave as the W/L balance isn't great but I wouldn't say that the majority move to PE, and if they do so it's because they want to try investing.

With all due respect, when you'll start working you'll understand that compensation is not the thing that will drive you anymore (or at least for the majority of us). Sure we'll get paid well anyways but some people want to have a good W/L balance and move to corpdev etc.

 

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