+3 IB Summer Analyst Pay Increase? 10 5y
+9 What does it feel like going home late at night? 7 5y
0 Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Review - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
+6 Moving groups after SA? 4 5y
0 Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Salary & Bonus - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
+111 What's the worst bank mispronunciation that you've heard? 54 5y
+3 JPM IB LATAM 2022 ANALYST 1 5y
0 Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Interview - Consumer - Retail Data 5y
+4 Wells Fargo IB First Year Analyst Salary 5 5y
+28 Senior MD agrees to a phone interview, doesn't answer 13 5y
0 Goldman Sachs - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 5y
+1 Got COVID Before Superday 1 5y
0 JP Morgan Securities - Review - Investment Banking Data 5y
+7 Pymetrics 4 5y
0 Wells Fargo and Company - Review - Generalist Data 5y
0 Wells Fargo and Company - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 5y
+12 Opportunity to leave IB -- too early? 6 5y
0 Goldman Sachs - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
+3 Macquarie Infra IBD/Principle Investing 3 5y
0 Oppenheimer - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
+9 SF Banking Lifestyle - Good / Bad? 3 5y
+3 Did first-year 2020 class MBA associates or any VPs quit this year more than others 14 5y
+3 VP comp 5 5y
+19 Is this a smart idea? 11 5y
0 Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
+107 BOFA Analyst training call anti semitism -- follow up 95 5y
+2 Analyst Rent Help 1 5y
+7 KPMG M&A vs. Deloitte M&A (Corporate Finance Advisory) 5 5y
0 Goldman Sachs - Review - Generalist Data 5y
0 Goldman Sachs - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 5y
+4 Am I (half white, half Asian) ever considered diverse? 8 5y
+221 Best Analyst you’ve ever seen? 17 5y
+3 Sharing deal announcement on LinkedIn? 2 5y
0 Houlihan Lokey - Review - Restructuring Data 5y
0 Houlihan Lokey - Salary & Bonus - Restructuring Data 5y
+23 Keybanc sa 2022 227 5y
+87 JPMorgan wants to end banker burnout, for real this time 51 5y
0 BNP Paribas - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Lazard, Inc. - Interview - Generalist Data 5y
0 Credit Suisse - Review - Technology Data 5y
0 Credit Suisse - Salary & Bonus - Technology Data 5y
0 Mizuho - Interview - Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) Data 5y
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+16 Dump intern? 14 5y
0 Moody's Analytics Knowledge Services - Review - Generalist Data 5y
+1 What’s the Girls Who Invest Summer Intensive Program hourly rate / salary? 3 5y
0 When did Guggenheim FOCUS Applications close? 3 5y
+4 Waitlisted at BB (GS/MS/JPM) 2 5y
+3 Deferred Tax Assets Interview Question 1 5y
0 Precedent Transactions < Trading Comps? 2 5y
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+4 Content Creator and IB 5 5y
+6 Reverse Merger Sell-Side or Buy-Side? 4 5y
0 Moelis & Company - Salary & Bonus - Quantitative Research Data 5y
+6 Park Sutton Advisors 5 5y
+3 DC IB Question 1 5y
+6 NYC BofA Corporate Banking 1 5y
0 Salary Increase 2 5y
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+15 Solutions to lack of work experience. Please help! 1 5y
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0 Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Wells Fargo and Company - Salary & Bonus - Debt Capital Markets Data 5y
+3 J&J vaccine 1 5y
+20 Cash and Cash Equivalents don't match in audited financials year to year? 5 5y
+21 What did you do to land in the bottom bucket? 15 5y
0 BB background check Process 4 5y
+9 What happens to options & RSUs in a privatization? 2 5y
0 Barclays - Review - Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) Data 5y
0 Barclays - Salary & Bonus - Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) Data 5y
+90 Introducing WSO Alpha 14 5y
+71 Intern looking to exit 45 5y
0 Corporate Banking (Associate to VP) 1 5y
+30 Dubai IB/PE in 2020 7 5y
0 training the street 3 5y
0 Standard Bank - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Is principal investing like PE? 3 5y
+9 Investment Banking Financial Models 1 5y
+3 Has anyone been drug tested since COVID started? 1 5y
0 Cantor Fitzgerald - Review - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
0 Cantor Fitzgerald - Salary & Bonus - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
0 Evercore - Salary & Bonus - Energy Data 5y
+56 How Far an MD Recommendation Gets You 51 5y
0 Goldman Sachs - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
+4 When do BBs ask for transcripts and how closely do they examine them? 5 5y
0 JPMorgan - Salary & Bonus - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
+6 Guggenheim 2022 SA First Round Written Assessment 1 5y
+1 Friday/Saturday Nights 4 5y
0 Brown Gibbons Lang and Company - Interview - Generalist Data 5y
0 Goldman Sachs - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
+5 Path to 2024 SA 6 5y
+64 Love the WSO Night Mode! 13 5y
+3 Stifel SA 2022 8 5y
0 JPMorgan - Interview - Information Technology (IT) Data 5y
+24 2nd Year Analyst - Ready to Quit 3 5y
0 JMP Group - Review - Generalist Data 5y
0 JMP Group - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 5y
+3 Incoming SA at Barclays, what group should I join? 4 5y
0 Barclays - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
+21 Most Respectful Way to Ask the Analysts in My Group Where They’re Exiting? 15 5y

Career Advancement Opportunities

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.5%
  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.4%
  • Guggenheim Partners 02 97.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 06 97.4%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Moelis & Company No 99.5%
  • Morgan Stanley 02 99.0%
  • Evercore 01 98.4%
  • Banco Santander 02 97.9%
  • BMO Capital Markets 13 97.4%

Professional Growth Opportunities

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.5%
  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • Morgan Stanley 05 98.4%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.9%
  • JPMorgan No 97.4%

Total Avg Compensation

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Vice President (16) $429
  • Associates (57) $264
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (8) $210
  • 2nd Year Analyst (28) $184
  • Intern/Summer Associate (16) $161
  • 1st Year Analyst (84) $151
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (76) $101
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