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Banker. Slightly over minimum wage when you break it down to hourly

 
"Prospect in Other" Banker. Slightly over minimum wage when you break it down to hourly

This is the correct answer.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

All Jokes Aside - regional boutique first year:

Total = 160K ( 10K sign on + 65K base + 90K bonus(could of hit 130K in bonus but missed 2))

Hours = 4,000 (80/ week * 50 weeks) - I work through Christmas and Thanksgiving is intense, we are small so its a good time to attack. I am still going to assume a average of 80 hours/week because some weeks it is slow.

165/4 = $41.25.... Damn I thought I made more than this.... 

 

A lot. I don't know if the hourly rate is great or shitty. Is it even work if you enjoy it? I'll admit that I spend at least four hours reading Bloomberg news and the wire services each day. Is that work?

The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
 

It is work if your job requires you to be knowledgeable about market conditions. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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It is work if your job requires you to be knowledgeable about market conditions. 

The thing is I've never been given an actual list of work requirements.  Even my boss (SMD) or his boss can't describe my job. I'm just here to clean up the odds and ends that they can't describe, while providing them cover and helping the people up the food chain with random requests that don't fall into anybody's wheelhouse.

The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
 

This is the correct answer. Work is defined as anything you do in exchange for money that you wouldn't otherwise do for free. Not sure how so many people don't understand this.

 

Just finished my first year as an Analyst for a massive publicly traded debt investment platform. I think my hourly gross wage is like $38/hour base?? However after all the stress and hours I work and taxes and cost of living in a major city I wouldn’t say I’m making much more than a rural cheaper cost of living barista making $15/hour with minimal expenses and maybe some OT. However my bonus is pretty substantial and my 401k is also popping off.

 

Meaning you feel you do more for the team than they compensate you for?

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Strategy. Not sure why you would express this in terms of hourly pay, but as I calculate it out it is somewhere around $110 an hour.

 

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