How to maximize my comp?

1.5 year of IB analyst experience and now 1.5 years of strategic finance experience. I was initially satisfied with my strategic finance comp but after a while feeling very stagnant now in progression on the corporate side compared to seeing my analyst peers continuing to double their comp. I assume I'll be fairly stuck in the current range (~$140k) in the corporate world - if I am focused on increasing my comp, would the best option be to go to business school? Are there any other job moves that can get me to $200k+ with faster progression? Definitely willing to work harder than in my current corporate setting to do so.

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Probably something you know already, but early years of banking have very stacked comp progression. You could do B-School but would ultimately have to consider going back to banking / PE

Comp in the corporate world until the higher levels will be fairly long tail as a chunk of "TC" is equity or options. 

Also am told SWE is paradise, so that's also an option :) Jk. 

 

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