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person with offer from BoA - can we please take this offline? My offer was 70K+15K!! Can the offers wary so much?

 

I've only heard 95 base so far (no more, no less: ML,BS,DB,UBS). Have there been more reports than the above on 105 at JPM?

Signing and relocation should be comparable across banks, with 30 sign and 10 relo.

 

I'm surprised that Merrill Lynch is paying sort of generously this year.

"We are lawyers! We sue people! Occasionally, we get aggressive and garnish wages, but WE DO NOT ABDUCT!" -Boston Legal-
 

You would think that all BBs in NY pay the same base. I doubt that CS and GS pay 90k while Citi and ML pay 95k and JPM pays 105. I can understand if GS underpays, but not the other banks. I am sure that recruits can get their bank to match JPM's offer if the bank is serious about recruiting these candidates.

 

Wow that does seem low. I think most of my classmates for the summer were being paid based on at least a $95K salary or more. PLus, I expected the signing bonuses to be at least $30K.

Does anyone know how this compared to last year?

 

Any predictions on what the 1st year associatge bonus will be considering the rise in analyst bonuses this year?

 

Hmmmm....that's interesting...$105k starting at JP Morgan and $110k (starting and relo) at ML...I thought JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch were notoriously stingy with pay....

Well I guess I'm wrong. :)

"We are lawyers! We sue people! Occasionally, we get aggressive and garnish wages, but WE DO NOT ABDUCT!" -Boston Legal-
 

I'm a second, or rather first full-year associate in LA - joined in summer '05. Our base was $95k + $30 sign + $47.5 stub bonus (paid in December).

I can't imagine paying any less than last years offer, especially considering how well M&A is doing this year.

I'm curious as to what bonuses were last year from other banks for first-full year associates (6-18 months experience)

 

Some banks (Leh, ML, MS definitely, and maybe others) upped the signing bonus to $40k for Class of 2007 MBAs. So, it's now $95k salary + $40k signing bonus + $10k relo + $5 to $10k end-of-summer bonus depending on when you signed. Then there's the stub bonus that, for Class of 2006, will be around $50k (no way to tell right now how much the stub will be for Class of 2007 1+ years from now). First year associate bonuses (for Class of 2005 grads who are about to get their first real full-year bonus) will be close to $200k (some analysts got $100k this past summer).

 

Looks like total's going to be like $300k+

"We are lawyers! We sue people! Occasionally, we get aggressive and garnish wages, but WE DO NOT ABDUCT!" -Boston Legal-
 
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The initial post was referring to 2008 packages, I'm assuming you meant 2007...

As a lateral candidate I've been consistently quoted:

$95K Base + $35K sign-on + $10k relocation... expectation of 1st year bonus is about $200K.

Bear in mind, I'm having conversations with banks now as a lateral hire into either a 1st year Associate or even 2nd year Associate (some banks are giving me credit for being 1 year post-MBA and having spent the year in a corporate finance role etc).

Also, I'm not quoting figures for bonuses such as:

"early sign-on" "summer" or "stub" at year end

because these don't apply to me as a lateral.

Also, as far as non-BB are concerned, the base is pretty much the same, actually even a little higher in some cases if they're giving me credit for 1 year post-MBA e.g. $100-110K base. Also, for non-BB the hiring bonus is $20-$25K. Not a fabulous sign-on, but again, this is for non-BB, less hours etc.

Finally, right now I think west coast (LA) and other cities (NYC, Chicago) are exactly the same. I see no difference.

 

They seem to match NYC. From sources at ML, Citi, and LB in London

Signing: 40K USD Summer Bonus (if you were an intern): 10k USD Relocation: 10K USD Salary: 60K GBP Stub Bonus: variable

 

Looks like associate pay has gone meaningfully up even from pre-crisis levels

 

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