Associate Base Salary Progression

I know there have been several threads on comp on here but have never really seen any threads on base salary progression. From a few posts, I can sort of piece together what the average is. 
 

Would love to get some data points on what average salary bump is from associate 1 —> 2 —> 3 to senior associate. 
 

My bump from associate 1 to 2 was 150k —> 165k for a ~$2B GE fund in a Tier 1 city

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