+52 Dollar Shave Club sold for $1B USD 24 9y
+52 LinkedIn Strategy & Analytics - Ask Me Anything 20 3y
+51 IB Analyst > Military Officer? 39 8y
+50 Investment Bankers vs. Quants | Who Is Paid More? 50 8y
+50 CFA® 2014 results 55 11y
+48 FP&A Manager Salary and Positions 24 6y
+48 Go to Energy Drink? 107 9y
+47 Careers in Finance for B+ Students? 43 6y
+47 Part 1: Insurance 101 15 8y
+47 Why has Wearable Tech Failed? 18 9y
+47 Will the EU Fall Apart? 18 6y
+47 Back office to Credit Analyst 14 8y
+47 MUFG Reputation & Thoughts? 17 4y
+46 Audit to Transaction Advisory Services 32 6y
+46 How to stay fit in IB ? 60 5y
+45 6 Lessons Learned After Leaving Finance For Entrepreneurship 9 6y
+45 How did you/would you handle a job that you hate so much that you are bad at it? 22 7y
+45 $8M Net Worth by 40 30 4y
+45 Thinking about studying/working in Mainland China? Think again 11 2y
+44 150K by 30 61 9y
+44 Who hires Entrepreneurship Majors? 67 9y
+44 New York Federal Reserve Exit Opportunities 34 6y
+44 Highest Paying Jobs that you can do from home (via the internet)? 73 9y
+43 Back Office (BO) Product Control Finance - Salary after X years? (long-term) 26 2y
+43 Tesla Overtakes Ford in Value 10 6y
+43 Growing up a Technologist on WSO 10 7y
+43 Commercial Banking - Relationship Manager 18 2y
+42 Should I pursue a Masters degree in Entrepreneurship? 32 6y
+42 Part 2: Reinsurance - Insuring the Insurer 9 5y
+42 The Demise of US Productivity 12 3y
+42 Q&A: Credit Research Associate interview 0 7y
+42 Q&A: I have no qualifications and went from a Bank Teller to Commercial Analyst in 18 months 8 6y
+41 please help me!I want to start a company ^-^ 49 8y
+41 New and Need Advice - Fund Accountant Career Paths? 34 15y
+41 Biz Dev Guy @ Start-Up Fielding Questions 24 6y
+41 Working in Professional Sports. 35 8y
+40 Big 4 Accounting 34 15y
+40 Thoughts on Becoming a Top Perfomer 30 11y
+40 IB vs. Medicine 17 6y
+40 What I learned from raging with 4 MDs 18 11y
+40 Q&A: Financial Services: My journey from nothing to pretty decent. 6 6y
+40 Thoughts on Rogo 28 2w
+39 Leaving finance to run family business 20 15y
+39 BIG4 -----> FP&A -----> Corporate Strategy / Financial Modeling 24 10y
+39 Entrepreneurship and patent lawsuits 13 6y
+39 deleted post topic 40 11y
+39 I've had more luck with entrepreneurship than with career: advice desperately needed 12 3y
+38 How WSO Was Built - Patrick Interviewed on Mixergy.com 31 11y
+38 Chinese pegging Yuan to the Dollar 36 6y
+38 Deloitte, PwC, or E&Y for Accounting Tax? 18 6y
+38 End of Dodd-Frank Regulations? 7 9y
+38 Accounting Question - Group Accounting 8 8y
+38 Weird Job Offers 2 3y
+38 JP Morgan Middle Market Banking SA Superday Interview 24 8y
+38 PE to Commercial Banking? 13 8y
+38 layoffs - this is why I save my money 10 6y
+38 Q&A: Top Bucket @ BB, Ask Me About Analytics, Internal Audit, General BO 10 5y
+38 Industry least affected by diversity? 21 2y
+37 Best route to CFO 14 9y
+37 Advice from the older crowd for a younger monkey? 26 6y
+37 Why would anyone want to be a lawyer? 38 3y
+37 Dental School to Something Else 35 10y
+37 UnSexy Business - Innovation and How To Succeed 7 6y
+37 The real reason why Tesla is trying to acquire SolarCity 33 6y
+37 When Is Law School Actually a Good Idea? 7 3y
+36 Meet The 8,074 New York Transit Workers Who Earn More Than $100,000 29 6y
+36 J.P. Morgan vs. Goldman Sachs 77 3y
+36 Venmo the Big Winner of Deregulation? 16 5y
+36 Elon Musk Launches New Company 10 9y
+36 property financials verbiage 12 7y
+35 Is Internal Audit a dead end career? 19 7y
+35 I'm in the collateral business, Q&A 9 10y
+35 What is your Opinion About Virtual Reality 17 9y
+34 Which Is More Prestigious: Modeling or Teaching? 15 11y
+34 Big 4 Partner Compensation 16 3y
+34 Do people really go into medicine to help people or for the steady and high income? 25 6y
+34 When Should You Start Saving for Retirement? 15 5y
+34 How do I join the film industry? 8 5y
+34 Buying A Small Business 14 3w
+33 GE - Energy Financial Services: Any thoughts? 62 9y
+33 Corporate M&A 20 15y
+33 Martin Luther King and the End of Innocence 16 6y
+33 What to Expect as a Big 4 Intern? 30 9y
+33 Putting GMAT score on Resume?? 7 8y
+33 Q&A: Community Banking - Market President 8 7y
+32 More KPMG Fraud.. Former Execs Arrested 9 6y
+32 Q&A: Ex-Senior Credit Risk Analyst at Barclays Investment Bank and grad student at Cornell University 10 3y
+31 Weird Classroom Experiences: Classes, Professors, & Grades 19 15y
+31 Generating Revenue with a Sports Blog 25 6y
+31 Where is the Love? 16 6y
+31 Why will People not Shut up About the Facebook Fake News "Epidemic" 11 6y
+31 Leaving firm to fly solo 14 7y
+31 Help us crowdsource the WSO Family Office Database 1 6y
+30 Entrepreneur- need life advise (LONG post warning) 7 6y
+30 why shouldnt I invest in gold? 24 14y
+30 What is the best thing about going out on your own and starting something... 26 6y
+30 When would you give up banking? 37 14y
+30 Hotter Girls....Chicago or Boston 43 6y
+30 Reinsurance Opportunities and Career Paths 17 5y
+30 Entrepreneurship bubble or am I just a sceptic? 11 6y

Career Advancement Opportunities

June 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.4%
  • Moelis & Company 01 98.8%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.2%
  • Guggenheim Partners 01 97.7%
  • Morgan Stanley 07 97.1%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

June 2026 Investment Banking

  • Moelis & Company No 99.4%
  • Morgan Stanley 02 98.8%
  • Evercore 01 98.2%
  • BMO Capital Markets 12 97.6%
  • Banco Santander 01 97.1%

Professional Growth Opportunities

June 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.4%
  • Moelis & Company 01 98.8%
  • Morgan Stanley 05 98.2%
  • JPMorgan No 97.7%
  • BMO Capital Markets 12 97.1%

Total Avg Compensation

June 2026 Investment Banking

  • Vice President (14) $434
  • Associates (43) $259
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (8) $210
  • 2nd Year Analyst (22) $179
  • Intern/Summer Associate (13) $156
  • 1st Year Analyst (75) $151
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (68) $101
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