What % of finance kids end up in IB / PE / HF / AM ?

Curious as to what the number could be.

Every year there are around 51,779 Finance graduates from universities ( undergrad)

How many of these end up in high finance ? What is our conversion rate ?

And to those who don’t end up in high finance, what jobs do they get ?

Like traditional finance jobs ( insurance sales, financial representative, etc) pay like 60k on average while the typical first year IB analyst will comfortably make 140k - 200k all in.

Curious as to how many people actually end up in six figure paying jobs

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