Fixed Income Analyst wanting to make more money

I’m a first year analyst at a fixed income debt shop (structured finance: CLO’s, ABS’s, CMBS/RMBS, etc). I’m currently in portfolio management but have a lot of lateral moves internally. However, I’m outside of NYC and I don’t love the city where I am and to top it off I’m only making like ~70k ish all-in. I want to make stacks. What should I do? I’m not a total hardo so any help would be appreciated.

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I'm asking because depending on the location, maybe it's worth pursuing internal opps or networking in your city if you have contacts there at other firms. But I can't comment on that with "not NYC" as my point of reference...

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