MD net worth

Incoming BB analyst. Assuming I stay in IB in NYC and go analyst you MD and have no family or kids, what should my net worth reasonably be by 40? 45?At what age could I reasonably expect to be worth $20 mil by working in IB?

 

No answer is 100% valid; really depends what you do with your earnings. If your sole focus is comp you’d have to make MD and have a good few years to be in your desired ballpark, even then I wouldn’t bank on comp to get me to 20m

 
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If you're not an retard and you know how to dump excess cash flow into 100% equities, you'll literally have around 50-70MM liquid by the time you're 50.

Said by "prospective M&A analyst". THIS is the type of kid that leaves the office crying on the first day and just doesn't come back. 

 

Great breakdown.

Would disagree saying an average MD is making 3M at 40-45. I think some MD on this website (forgot which poster) said it's more like 1.5-2M. 

 

Assumptions - 35% tax rate moves to 40% after you cross 500k in TC. You save 100% of your bonus spend the rest. Using 2021 bonus # from Citi via litquidity survey.

An1 -> 70k -> 45.5k

An2 -> 80k -> 52k

An3 -> 112.5k -> 73k

AS1 -> 148.75k -> 96.7k

AS2 -> 148.75k -> 96.7k

AS3 -> 242.5k -> 145.5k

VP1 -> 275.25k -> 165.15k

VP2 -> 336k -> 201.6k

VP3 -> 472.5k ->  283.5k

D1 -> 510k -> 306k

D2 -> 556k -> 333.6k

Total savings at this point is 1.79 million.

MD make between 1- 5 mil on average. Lets go with at MD1 you make 1 mil then hit the avg of 3 mil till you hit 40-45 years old.

510 post tax for MD1 + 5 -10 years *(1.5mil post tax bonus)  = 8 mil - 15 mil

Total NW is between 10 - 17 mil.

By 45 years old you can realistically be worth around 10- 20 mil. Very plausible to move to an EB and break 20 mil net worth.

Are you assuming no market returns ?

 

I read some article that was, saying to live a comfortable upper class lifestyle in NYC, you’d need a $200mil NW. 

By upper class they meant huge 5th Ave park facing condo, multiple vacation homes, private school, full support staff, many high end vacations per year, and lots of philanthropy 

Obviously no banker will ever hit that unless they start their own EB or get absurdly lucky with extremely high risk investments. 

 
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what the fuck. You need 200m to finally be comfortable in nyc?? 

There is no way the average MD is getting any where near that figure.

 

what the fuck. You need 200m to finally be comfortable in nyc?? 

There is no way the average MD is getting any where near that figure.

Did you read the article? It is stupid, well not stupid for what they were trying to do (an extreme) but please don’t refer to this as comfortable. The article has items like a $25mm art collection, $20mm vacation homes, $20mm primary residence. Give me a F’ing break. Please stop this nonsense. 

 
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This is crazy, please stop believing this nonsense. My wife and I are nowhere near $200mm, live in nyc, have a family, AND I feel like we can enjoy just about whatever we want. We own our apt (3 bedrooms), have 2 vacation homes, and vacation about once a month. If you need $200mm to do that, you are getting ripped off. 

 

Varies massively. If you're working at a mid/low tier IB, I would say $10M by 50-55 best case scenario. Deferred comp, taxes, high expense base, bopping between firms. You could get to $10M at the same age by living below your means and letting compound interest run its course lol 

 

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