Family Office 2025/2026 Comp Thread
Midway through year, yes I know I'm late. What was your 2025 year end total comp? It's a small world so feel free to not be too exact with numbers, but ranges would be nice for benchmarking family office comp. Would appreciate yoe since undergrad and your background prior as well.
I ask because there's so much variability in comp depending on generosity/aum. Benchmarking will give us more negotiating leverage in the future. Appreciate your contributions brothers.
It seems like you're looking for specific compensation data for family offices in 2025/2026. Unfortunately, the WSO dataset provided does not include detailed or updated compensation threads for family offices for those years. However, based on the most helpful WSO content, family office compensation tends to be highly variable and influenced by factors such as AUM, the family's generosity, and the structure of the compensation package.
Key insights from WSO threads on family office compensation include: - Base + Bonus: Typically comparable to or slightly lower than similarly sized funds. - Additional Perks: Family offices often offer unique benefits like profit sharing across the entire portfolio, co-investment opportunities, carried interest in deals, phantom equity, pensions, and deferred compensation plans. - Loans for Investments: Some family offices provide loans (e.g., LIBOR + 125) to employees for co-investing in deals.
If you're benchmarking for negotiation, consider these variables and the fact that family offices often prioritize long-term alignment with the family's interests over short-term compensation.
Sources: Family Office vs. Traditional LP Career Path, Would you work for a family office?, Thoughts on a Family Office Developer?, Help us crowdsource the WSO Family Office Database, Exiting a Family Office - help/advice?
Experience: 2 years bank lending + 2 years IB + 2 years LMM PE + 2 years at current FO
Focus: 100% direct private investments (control and noncontrol)
AUM: Less than $500mm (less than 5 investment professionals)
Comp: $265k cash + 5% carry on deal by deal basis
WLB: Phenomenal; ~1 closed deal a year
Thanks for sharing. I have a friend who's a ~VP level at a FO (>$1B AUM) and he's doing 50-60 hours and makes ~$400k cash comp (no idea on carry). In a T1 city.
I live in a larger U.S. metro but not a NYC, Chicago, SF, etc. type finance hub. I am not maximizing my cash comp, but also have no desire to do so anymore. I've lost 25 lbs since leaving PE and get to enjoy life again. Going back to the rat race would kill me inside if I had to.
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