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Year 1 (All in): $130,000 

Year 2 (All in): $180,000

Assuming you're not going to be working at Centerview, the numbers above are a good estimate of how much you will make. Let us assume you will work at Barclays so you rent an apartment for $2,950 a month, plus utilities/maintenance  of $350 so you are at $3,300 a month. Barclays usually pays for lunch, so let's say you spend an average of $20 a day on food and $40 on weekends so you are at $140 a week or $560 a month on food. Gym membership monthly of $62 dollars. And assuming a monthly allowance on anything you want of $500 dollars, your expenses come to the following:

$3,300+$62+$560 + $500 = $4,422

I used smartasset and it generated 1st year post tax yearly income of $86,326 and a 2nd year post tax income of $117,444

Lets assume you maintain the same standard of living for both years so $4,422 x 12 = $53,064

$86,326 - $53,064 = $33,262

$117,444 - $53,064 = $64,380

By the end of your two years including bonus, you would save $97,642, but if income in second year is more moderate, then you are looking at around $80,000

The real money in my understanding isn't made in your analyst years. So let's do the same calculations all the way up to VP, for 10 years of the same living conditions, since your whole life will be IB and will not have much time for anything else.

Analyst

Year 1 (All in): $130,000 --- $86,326 - $53,064 = $33,262

Year 2 (All in): $180,000 --- $117,444 - $53,064 = $64,380

Year 3 : $220,000 --- $140,042 - $53,064 = $86,978

Associate

Year 4: $250,000 --- $155,904 - $53,064 = $102,840

Year 5: $310,000 --- $187,058 - $53,064 = $133,994

Year 6: $365,000 --- $215,616 - $53,064 = $162,552

Year 7: $395,000 --- $231,193 - $53,064 = $178,129

VP

Year 8: $420,000 --- $244,175 - $53,064 = $191,111

Year 9: $510,000 --- $290,906 - $53,064 = $237,842

Year 10: $600,000 --- $336,695 - $53,064 = $283,631

By 32 or 36, depending on when you became an analyst, you'll have $1,474,719 in savings. 

Hopes this helps!

 

This is a great comment. Only addition I would add is the monthly expenses are low. They don’t include odd-ball things like moving, gifts, a bed, any trips, a health expense, etc.

Having lived it, i doubt you average out to less than 5k and realistically it will be closer to 6 or 7k a month. Your monthly expenses might be sub 5k, but all it takes is a single overlapping lease or health issue and you are over.

Best case, I think you are looking at 60k expenses, and the math for earnings is prob averaging to 170k. Add a 30% tax rate for federal and state tax and you are at like 60k a year of savings a year and that’s being pretty optimistic. I think if you can save 120k, that’s a great number to shoot for.

 

Hockey-Stick Forecaster

Year 1 (All in): $130,000 

Year 2 (All in): $180,000

Assuming you're not going to be working at Centerview, the numbers above are a good estimate of how much you will make. Let us assume you will work at Barclays so you rent an apartment for $2,950 a month, plus utilities/maintenance  of $350 so you are at $3,300 a month. Barclays usually pays for lunch, so let's say you spend an average of $20 a day on food and $40 on weekends so you are at $140 a week or $560 a month on food. Gym membership monthly of $62 dollars. And assuming a monthly allowance on anything you want of $500 dollars, your expenses come to the following:

$3,300+$62+$560 + $500 = $4,422

I used smartasset and it generated 1st year post tax yearly income of $86,326 and a 2nd year post tax income of $117,444

Lets assume you maintain the same standard of living for both years so $4,422 x 12 = $53,064

$86,326 - $53,064 = $33,262

$117,444 - $53,064 = $64,380

By the end of your two years including bonus, you would save $97,642, but if income in second year is more moderate, then you are looking at around $80,000

The real money in my understanding isn't made in your analyst years. So let's do the same calculations all the way up to VP, for 10 years of the same living conditions, since your whole life will be IB and will not have much time for anything else.

Analyst

Year 1 (All in): $130,000 --- $86,326 - $53,064 = $33,262

Year 2 (All in): $180,000 --- $117,444 - $53,064 = $64,380

Year 3 : $220,000 --- $140,042 - $53,064 = $86,978

Associate

Year 4: $250,000 --- $155,904 - $53,064 = $102,840

Year 5: $310,000 --- $187,058 - $53,064 = $133,994

Year 6: $365,000 --- $215,616 - $53,064 = $162,552

Year 7: $395,000 --- $231,193 - $53,064 = $178,129

VP

Year 8: $420,000 --- $244,175 - $53,064 = $191,111

Year 9: $510,000 --- $290,906 - $53,064 = $237,842

Year 10: $600,000 --- $336,695 - $53,064 = $283,631

By 32 or 36, depending on when you became an analyst, you'll have $1,474,719 in savings. 

Hopes this helps!

IMPORTANT WARNING: do not do an mba if you want as much money as possible as quickly as possible

if you do your numbers will look drastically different to this, i.e., ZERO net worth by 30 :)

 

Just started as a first year 6mmonthd in and would say have 12-15k all in savings and 401k am I on right path or should I really look into my budgets

 

At a top EB in SF. 3rd year analyst about to exit end of year, moderate costs because I would like to actually not hate the box I live in. Started with 0$ in savings post-grad and didn’t have any help (mommy and daddy don’t pay rent / for my car etc.) and I have ~48k I savings. I just drop 1-2k in my HY account each pay period and also end of year bonuses pretty much goes into this after maxing out the investment accounts. I truly think you lot are overthinking it.

 

Bro what happened to your bonus? Would think that’s 30-50k post tax each year? I am 6mo into my first year and have about 32k saved but thought I was behind (17k in pre tax 401k)

 

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