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I'm assuming you mean full time (FT) at a bulge bracket (BB). No, but you can probably safely assume it is ON AVERAGE 80+. The way I've had it explained to me is that when you're on a live deal you might go a month or two working 100 hours a week and then have it ease off to 60-80 hours a week, then up and down.

At middle market firms you can probably knock 10-20 hours off the average depending on deal flow. At prestigious boutiques like Lazard or Evercore expect to work 100+ on average.

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Someone posted the answer to this pretty recently. Take a look around the forums and you'll learn quite a bit about finance in general.

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