Carry by Fund Size / Year

Curious for some anecdotal benchmarking on carry DAW - by fund size, Associate / Senior Associate / VP / Principal / Partner (and clarify if your fund's Senior Associate is equivalent to Vice President) and which year in each bucket you are (VP1/VP2/VP3, etc.). 

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